Access to continuous clinical training is essential to good practice, professional satisfaction and better patient outcomes. When MOTO interviewed local therapists in Tanzania, 71% stated that they did not have access to regular clinical skills training. We want to change that. Our project will support OTs, PTs and SALTs to access new and exciting clinical skills training developed collaboratively and delivered by therapists across the world.
Therapists within our Kilimanjaro Therapy Network (KTN) reported that access to a range of CPD opportunities was often limited due to time, opportunity, location and resources. Many of the strongest and most active professional bodies for therapists are based overseas and access to training courses, lectures, and other CPD courses are either not accessible from Tanzania, not know to Tanzanian therapists or not affordable.
Our skill share project aims to close the gap on CPD, by providing collaboratively developed CPD opportunities from across the world, to boost the skills, knowledge and confidence of local therapists - and build an international professional community. The Tanzanian therapists that we have spoken to have stated this would be beneficial for them.
We believe that the strengthening of the skills and knowledge of the therapist community in Tanzania will support the profession to be better understood, better appreciated, and lend itself to further clinical innovation and research so that the Tanzanian therapists can build clinically contextual guidelines and practice that is shaped for them by them. Access to clinical skills training also helps to improve service user outcomes and experiences.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
