About the course

Effective preparation for managing patients with DR TB requires both theoretical learning and practice and discussion under the oversight of experienced clinicians. This course is the compulsory theoretical study that needs to be successfully completed to enrol in a tutored online course or an in-person face-to-face course.      

Target audience

Duration

This course consists of eight modules, each of which requires 2-3 hours of study. The learning process is divided up into two separate phases (see timelines below in the enrolment section):

1. Participants are informed of their acceptance onto this first phase of the course. They are given access to all the online study material on the Tembo platform and are given eight weeks to complete the required study. This includes submission of certificates of satisfactory completion of each module.
2. Participants who have submitted all the required certificates are notified of their confirmation onto the second phase of the course which starts two months later.

Learning objectives

On successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• integrate DR-TB epidemiology when approaching potential TB cases.
• request and appropriately interpret DR-TB diagnosis tests.
• prescribe standardized or individualized DR-TB treatment regimens as per MSF guidelines.
• identify and manage barriers to and motivations for patients to complete DR-TB treatment.  
• detect, manage, and report adverse events related to DR-TB treatment.
• adapt DR-TB management to specificities of paediatric patients (from diagnosis to follow-up) 
• document DR-TB treatment correctly to ensure proper patient care and programmatic monitoring.
• detect and manage latent TB infection in contacts of DR-TB patients.

List of contents

Methodology

During this course participants will study carefully prepared content drawn from the latest international guidelines. The teaching content, drawing on evidence-based teaching strategies, uses a combination of multimedia materials, including video, audio, text and animations. Short quizzes and a few short assignments are interspersed throughout all the modules to stimulate effective learning. 

Evaluation and certification

For successful completion of each module, participants are required to: 

• read through all the course material. 
• complete and submit their assignments. Brief feedback will be provided after successful submission. 
• score 90% for all the quizzes. Please note that, when errors are made, participants may return to the text to find the correct answers and then repeat the quizzes as many times as needed.  

On successful meeting of all the above criteria, badges and a certificate will automatically be issued. 

Requirements/Prerequisites

You need to be a medical doctor or clinical officer, actively engaged in clinical decision-making in the management of patients with DR TB. Access to this course will be given only on acceptance for this course via the enrolment process explained in the next section.

Enrolment