Resource Spotlight: Focusing on the Essentials: Learning for Performance
As The World health report 2006 emphasized, there is increasing consensus that training programs should focus on "know-how" instead of "know-all." Health workers need to know how to do the job they will be expected to do. IntraHealth International's Learning for performance: a guide and toolkit for health worker training and education programs offers a step-by-step, customizable approach designed to develop the right skills linked to job responsibilities. Using Learning for Performance (LFP) yields more efficient training that focuses on what is essential for health workers to do their jobs and on effective learning methods, while addressing the factors that ensure application of new skills on the job.
This brief communication describes the Learning for performance approach and initial findings from its application for pre-service education and in-service training in three countries: India, Mali and Bangladesh. Based on IntraHealth's experiences, the author provides thoughts on how LFP's performance-based learning approach can be a useful tool in training scale-up to strengthen human resources for health. [Abstract]
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The HRH Global Resource Center has other resources on this topic including:
- Supporting Existing Health Cadres in Learning New Skills: Tools and Approaches
- Learning for Performance: a Guide and Toolkit for Health Worker Training and Education Programs
- Scaling Up Health Service Delivery: from Pilot Innovations to Policies and Programs
For additional resources on this topic, visit the Training Methodologies, Pre-Service Education, and In-Service Training subject categories.
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