← Biostatistics Officer/Public Health Officers CPD

Dr. John Humphrey Amuasi , Dr. (Mrs.) Adwoa Bemah Boamah Mensah , Dr. Yeetey Akpe Kwesi Enuameh , Dr. Joseph Bonney , Dr. Kofi Boamah Mensah , Dr. Joshua Appiah Arthur , Dr. Ijeoma Chinedum Anyitey-Kokor , Dr. Anthony Afum-Adjei Awuah , Dr Laud Anthony Wihibeturo Basing , Mr. Louis Adu-Amoah

COVID-19 Training Module for all Health Workers

Accreditation Details

Valid From
1 Aug. 2020

Expiry Date
2 Nov. 2020

CPD Points
2

This training is open to all health care workers in Ghana, whether or not they are presently involved in the management of COVID-19 patients.

This CPD is only accessible with a voucher code that will be sent to you after you have completed an online survey. Please click below to complete the survey on a secure external website.

The African coaLition for Epidemic Research, Response, and Training (ALERRT) is a multi-disciplinary consortium which combines the strengths of 21 leading African and European partner organisations from nine African and four European countries to provide a research response to epidemics across sub-Saharan Africa.

The ALERRT in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO), is undertaking a survey titled 'Perceptions and Preparedness of Healthcare Workers regarding Local Infection Prevention and Control Procedures for COVID-19' in all member countries.

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Overview

Course Description

This training module will become available to you upon completing the survey. It is made up of lecture videos and an assessment to update health care workers on COVID-19. The training is crafted to be concise and self-paced, but with an expiration date.

What you will learn

The training is aimed at increasing the knowledge of health care workers to enable them to stay safe, readily screen, isolate and treat suspected and confirmed cases of COVID-19 in their line of duty.

1. To review the knowledge of Basic information on COVID-19
2. To review current recommendations in Appropriate use of Personal Projective Equipment (PPE)
3. To review current recommendations on Testing, Imaging and Laboratory Information of COVID-19
4. To study the current recommendations on Treatment and Vaccines

GHS

Course Content

Lecture Sessions

Introduction to CPD 5 Minutes
Introduction to COVID-19 5 Minutes
Signs and symptoms of COVID-19 12 Minutes
Know your PPEs 19 Minutes
Appropriate Personal Protective Equipment for various activities 4 Minutes
Re-use of PPEs 17 Minutes
Sample Taking 24 Minutes
PCR testing vs Rapid Diagnostic Kits 23 Minutes
COVID-19 chest X-ray appearance 23 Minutes
Current Management Protocols 7 Minutes
Vaccine Development 22 Minutes
Conclusion and Summary 14 Minutes

Downloadables

Introduction to COVID-19
Sign and Symptoms and Severity of COVID-19
Know your PPEs, How to wear PPEs and General Principles of Infection Prevention
Appropraite Use of PPE and Re-use of PPE
The re-use of personal protective equipment (PPE)
Sample Taking in COVID-19
PCR testing vs Rapid Diagnostic Test
COVID-19 chest X-ray appearance
Current management protocols
Vaccine development Truths - Myths

Steps to Join Course

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3. Choose course under your profession
4. Click on Get Free Course
5. Find your new course under My Courses
6. Click on course to see contents
7. Complete all Sessions and Quizes
8. Download your Certificate

About Facilitators

2 Courses on CES

Dr. John Humphrey Amuasi

Dip, BSc, MBChB, MPH, MSc, PhD, FWACP

Head, Department of Global Health, School of Public Health, KNUST
Leader of the Global One Health Research Group

Global Health Department of the School of Public Health
Kumasi Center for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR).
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)

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1 Course on CES

Dr. (Mrs.) Adwoa Bemah Boamah Mensah

BSc (Hons.), MPhil, FWACON, FGCNM, RN, PhD

Lecturer, Department of Nursing, College of Health Sciences, KNUST

Co-PI, Health workers' Survey on COVID-19 and IPC

Dr. (Mrs. ) Adwoa Bemah Boamah Mensah is a nurse by profession and a lecture in Nursing and Midwifery at the Department of Nursing, College of Health Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi. She obtained her Diploma (distinction) in Nursing in 2005.

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Dr. Yeetey Akpe Kwesi Enuameh

MD, MSc, DrPH

Senior Lecturer and Head, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, KNUST

Adjunct Lecturer, The Joanna Briggs Institute, Adelaide, Australia.
Research Fellow, Kintampo Health Research Center

Yeetey is a Senior Lecturer of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health and the Head of the Department of Community Health, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.

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Dr. Joseph Bonney

BSc, MBChB, MPH, MSc DM, MGSPS

Specialist Emergency Medicine, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi
ATLS, AEMS, AHLS Instructor

Research Fellow, Global Health and Infectious Diseases Research Group, KCCR
Associate Editor, Ghana Medical Journal, African Journal of Emergency Medicine
Vice President, African Federation of Emergency Medicine

Dr. Bonney is a locally trained Emergency Medicine Specialist under the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons. He holds a Master’s in Public Health, specialized in Health Service Planning and Management from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.

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Dr. Kofi Boamah Mensah

PhD, MSc., PharmD, BPharm (Hons.), FGCP, MPSGH

Lecturer, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, KNUST.

Research Fellow, Discipline of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.
Specialist Pharmacist, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi

A specialist Oncology Pharmacist at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) and adjunct lecturer at the Department of Pharmacy Practice, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) – Ghana.

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Dr. Joshua Appiah Arthur

BSc, MBChB, MSc, MGCPS

Public Health Specialist and Head, Disease Control and Surveillance, Public

Health Unit, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi

Joshua Arthur is a public health physician specialist and currently head of disease control and surveillance at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital. He has served in many capacities as a public health physician including on numerous monitoring teams around the country.

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Dr. Ijeoma Chinedum Anyitey-Kokor

BSc, MBChB, MGCPS

Specialist Radiologist, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi

Adjunct Assistant Lecturer, Department of Medical Imaging KNUST

Dr. Ijeoma Anyitey-Kokor is a Specialist Radiologist at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital with expertise in medical imaging. Her area of interest in musculoskeletal imaging. She is a Part-Time Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Medical Imaging at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Kumasi.

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Dr. Anthony Afum-Adjei Awuah

BSc, PhD

Lecturer, Department of Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine and Dentistry, KNUST

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Global Health and Infectious Diseases Research Group, KCCR

A postdoctoral research fellow with the Global Health and Infectious Disease Research Group at the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR) and a former WHO/TDR Clinical Research and Development fellow Anthony started his career with a degree in Biochemistry and went on to do his PhD in…

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Dr Laud Anthony Wihibeturo Basing

BSc, MPhil, MBA, MSc, PhD

Post-Doctoral Researcher

Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR)-Bacteriology
Founder/Chief Executive Officer, Incas Diagnostics Limited; Kumasi

Laud Anthony Basing is Scientist, Engineer, Innovator and Entrepreneur. He is the CEO and Founder of Incas diagnostics, a social enterprise in Ghana, which seeks to save lives through the design and production of low-cost, easy-to-use, point-of-care diagnostic test kits designed specifically for Africa.

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