Postabortion Care Curriculum
USAID PAC Working Group
2010

This curriculum contains: a Reference Manual, a Participant’s Guide, a Trainer’s Guide and presentation graphics in PowerPoint format.

 Postabortion Care Curriculum: Reference Manual

 Postabortion Care Curriculum: Participant’s Guide

Powerpoint Presentations

 Introduction to PAC

 Postabortion Care: Values and Attitudes

 Emergency Treatment: Uterine Evacuation Methods

 Emergency Treatment: Sharp Curettage

 Emergency Treatment: Postabortion Complications and Management

Enhancing Postabortion Care (PAC) Counseling Skills: An Interactive Learning Tool
Intrahealth
2008

The interactive simulations in this DVD package aim to enhance or refresh the counseling skills of experienced PAC providers.

 Disc 1 Transcript

 Disc 2 Transcript

Postabortion Care On-the-Job Training 
Ministry of Health, Nepal 
August 2006 

This clinical training experience is designed to prepare competent PAC providers using an on-the-job (OJT) approach. Essential to this OJT course are four basic components:

 Implementation Guideline of Structured On-the-Job Training for Postabortion Care in Nepal
Ministry of Health, Nepal 
July 2007 

These guidelines were developed to help program managers and trainers plan and manage PAC on-the-job (OJT) training courses. The document serves to help establish OJT sites in health facilities and train service providers in PAC.

 Postabortion Care: A Reference Manual for Improving Quality of Care
Ministry of Health, Nepal
December 2002

The purpose of this manual is to provide clinicians (physicians, nurses, and midwives) with essential information on the provision of comprehensive postabortion care services. It is intended to assist clinicians in treating incomplete abortion and its life-threatening complications. The manual outlines the full range of activities needed to provide appropriate, high-quality postabortion care, including family planning and referral to health care services needed after emergency treatment. The material in this manual is arranged sequentially according to the usual way in which patients are cared for—starting with the initial assessment of their condition and ending with the provision of follow-up care, including family planning and other reproductive health services. Moreover, it is provided in concise segments, for facilitating learning and recall. Finally, key points are repeated in several sections to emphasize their importance. 

Postabortion Care Clinical Skills Curriculum
Ministry of Health, Tanzania
July 2002

This training curriculum is based on the current 5-element construct for PAC which includes the traditional 3 elements plus community mobilization and expanded counseling. The curriculum is said to be adaptable for varied approaches to training (e.g., self-direct/individualized learning, OJT, or whole site training) though the main approach in its writing is for centralized, group training.

 Volume 1: Trainer’s Guide

 Volume 2: Trainee's Handbook

Counseling the Postabortion Client: A Training Curriculum
EngenderHealth
2003

A training guide for postabortion care providers (including doctors, nurses, and midwives) who interact with clients before, during, and immediately after the treatment procedure. This innovative curriculum expands the realm of traditional postabortion care counseling services by teaching crucial skills needed to improve communication between providers and clients. This volume contains step-by-step guidelines for conducting a training workshop and participant handouts.

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Postabortion Care Course
JHPIEGO
April 2000

This clinical training course is designed for service providers (physicians, nurses, and midwives). The course builds on each participant’s past knowledge and takes advantage of her or his high motivation to accomplish the learning tasks in the minimum time. Training emphasizes doing, not just knowing, and uses competency-based evaluation of performance.

 Notebook for Trainers

 Guide for Participants

 PreService Implementation Guide: A Process for Strengthening Preservice Education
JHPIEGO
September 2002

This guide describes the step-by-step process used to create a positive environment on the national level for strengthening medical, nursing, and preservice education, and the steps on the institutional level to improve the existing curriculum and its implementation. Adapted from the World Health Organization's 2001 document Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI): Planning, Implementing and Evaluating Pre-Service Education.

 Increasing the Efficiency of Training in Postabortion Care Programs: The Zambia Experience
JHPIEGO
April 2002

Describes the “Training in Reproductive Health” PAC program in Zambia, which incorporated four key elements into its framework: advocacy, access to services, institutionalization of training, and sustainability.

Educating Advanced Practice Nurses and Midwives: From Practice to Training
Thompson, JE and Krisman-Scott, MA
2001

Three appendices from this book include suggested guidelines for preparation of preceptors, sample clinical data sheet, and sample clinical teacher report form.

 Sample Clinical Site Data Sheet

 Sample Clinical Teacher Report Form

 Suggested Guidelines for Preparation of Preceptors

Postabortion Care Individual Learning Package
JHPIEGO
2002

This package uses an individualized learning approach for postabortion care (PAC) skills. It is available on CD-ROM to provide the greatest flexibility in its use and allow it to be adapted easily to meet a particular country's needs. The package comprises a Learner's Guide, Trainer's Guide and Supervisor's Guide, and is designed to be used with the same PAC reference manual, audiovisuals and anatomic models used for group-based training.

 Learner's Guide 
 
 Trainer's Guide

 Supervisor's Guide

 National Postabortion Care Curriculum for Service Providers
Ministry of Health, Kenya
July 2002

This National Post-Abortion Care Curriculum was borne out of the need to harmonize and standardize the various curricula used in Kenya to train PAC service providers. This effort came in the wake of the Ministry’s decision to allow the training in, and provision of PAC services by nurses and clinical officers, a practice previously reserved for medical doctors only. This adjustment in policy was necessitated by the global and local trends in maternal mortality.

 Training Works!
USAID
November 2003

This handbook is for anyone who has a role in the management, design, delivery, or evaluation of group-based training for healthcare professionals who are currently providing services such as inservice training. It summarizes the tasks that should be completed at each stage of training to ensure an effective training course.

 Practical Guide for Selection of MVA Instruments
EngenderHealth
2001

In an effort to help buyers assess the various MVA instruments on the market, EngenderHealth and the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) conducted the first-ever comparative evaluation of MVA instruments in 2001, testing the durability, quality, safety, and usability of all instruments available at the time. In addition, for each product evaluated, information was compiled about the product, its distribution, and the manufacturer’s contact information. As no widely known standards existed for evaluating MVA instruments under field conditions, innovative laboratory tests were created for this evaluation.