General Courses

The focus of this module will be on Ethical issues or tensions, ethical principles, professional values, clients’ rights, technology, digital Health, Social Media, and their related ethical issues in health care delivery. in addition to this, the participant will be present with ethical deliberation models as a useful tool to handle various ethical issues.

Aim of the Module: 

Enhancing health professionals’ knowledge, attitudes and skills necessary for the exercise of health care practice guided by moral principles and code of conduct 

Module Objectives:

By the completion of this module, the participant will be able to:

1. Apply knowledge of principles of ethics, ethical tensions, professional values, and patients' rights, while providing health care service

2. Explore the impact of ethical decision making on patient care in Rwandan contexts.

3. Consider ethics related to the health service delivery through web-based telemedicine or other telecommunication methods

4. Appraise health professional values and obligations while delivering healthcare services in the spirit of ethical principles respect

You are welcome to this module of Gender and Gender Based Violence that is intended to healthcare practice.

The aim of this module is to make gender and GBV considerations an integral part of the training modules for health professionals at all levels. The concepts of Gender and GBV are one of the crosscutting relevant and crucial components to all health care professionals. In the training of people in-service, the concepts like gender and GBV and their impact on health will be addressed; to equip health care providers from different health programs with comprehensive knowledge, attitudes and skills to address gender and GBV issues in health care context. The participant is subject to a pretest before undertaking the module, while in training will continuously be assessed before the post test at the end of the module.

Many patients have complex health needs that require the expertise of multiple health professionals. A consistent communication and collaboration between different fields can ensure client-centered attitudes. Inter-professional collaboration allows sharing of expertise and perspectives and involves the client in decision-making to form common health goals. This module will help you acquire knowledge and skills as well as understand the utility of Inter-professional collaborative practice towards patients, family and community centered health care.  It outlines the concepts of IPE and IPC and the evidence in the literature that supports this form of practice.  The focus is to provide to the health care professionals in depth information related to principles guiding IPE/IPC and its related competencies, as well as the requirements for effective inter-professional team work for the sake of quality improvement.

The module is comprised of a pre-test, two topics including; IPE/IPC Introduction & IPE/IPC Principles and Competencies with quiz at the end of each topic, case studies and finally the course assessment.

The module will take at least 3 hours and the participant will acquire 5 CPD credits 

In public health settings such as Ministries of Health, scorecard offers a useful and standardised method for analysis with traffic lights color-codes, combining related indicators into one table. A scorecard can give an overall view of the performance of a health program such as a vaccination program, highlighting successes, weaknesses, and areas for improvement. 

• Facilitator: Andrew Muhire
• Facilitator: Adolphe Kamugunga
• Facilitator: Eric Munyambabazi 

This Introduction to Data Quality course will ensure that data managers understand the importance of data quality in decision making, understand the key quality problems associated with the common sources of data used for assessment of progress and performance of the health sector, and create plans to rectify data quality issues.

The focus of this course includes the study of health data entry, retrieval, analysis and presentation by the Health professional. Learners will critically examine different steps in data entry, retrieve and data analysis. Data presentation, quality assurance will be explored as the Health Management Information System professional contributes to, and aids in the facilitation of the decision-making process.

This course explores how MoH affiliated staff can describe the significance, necessity, and key components of the HMIS Dashboard. Participants will also strengthen their ability to use the HMIS Dashboard to obtain the data on specific indicators in which they wish to explore.

One of the gaps at the decentralized level is that district health staffs, district health management teams (DHMTs) and other district authorities are not making sufficient use of geographic information systems (GIS) tools available to them for evidence-based decision making. This is especially the case for identifying new locations for health posts, monitoring geographic distribution of disease burden or risk factors to better target their interventions. “QGIS” is “a professional” GIS software which is open (served for free) with functionalities to visualize, manage, edit, analyze data, and compose printable maps. Building capacity of decentralized level staff in QGIS would improve the use of data for decision making, especially in the areas of high interest such as family planning, malaria, and maternal and neonatal health.  

The Quality Improvement (QI) Program provides a formal process to monitor and evaluate the quality, appropriateness, efficiency, safety, and effectiveness of care and service utilising a multidimensional approach objectively and systematically. This approach enables the health professional to focus on opportunities for improving operational Processes and health outcomes, ensuring cultural and high levels of health care users and providers satisfaction.

This course aims to provide facility level data managers and clinicians with the knowledge and skills they need to monitor their own health service coverage, utilization, and quality, to uncover performance challenges and track improvement over time. Its main purpose is to promote a culture of data use for informed decision making at facility level.

This is an eLearning course to train health workers how to code medical procedures and diagnoses using the Rwanda Medical Procedure Code system and ICD-11.

This course has been designed to enable participants to create different types of maps using the DHIS-2 GIS module, and to move data from the DHIS-2 into QGIS in order to produce basic choropleth maps.