Specific skill training for low-resource countries: A perspective from a broad workforce development project in Afghanistan

摘要

Even with obvious training needs, high quality and effective content can be challenging to devel- op for educational programs targeting resource-poor environments. Entire academic fields and bodies of literature exist for various approaches to education in high-resource settings, but such literature is nascent for low-resource environments, including our field of Anesthesiology [1] 1 . In this article, we discuss some of the challenges and our approach to developing content and a curriculum for teaching highly technical skills as part of an anesthesiology higher education project in Afghanistan. Our strategy involved using Instructional Design principles and accepted strategies of workshop de- velopment but modifying them from the beginning in collaboration with the local providers with the hopes of maximizing local relevance.