(MENAFN- QNA) Qatar Red Crescent (QRC) has organized a three-day intensive trainer education course under the ambitious training program 'I Am a Paramedic', which is planned to cover 19 Supreme Education Council (SEC) schools in Al-Shamal northern region of the country during the academic year 2014-2015, with QR 1,000,000 funding from Ras Laffan Community Outreach Programme (COP).
The first two days of the course were held at the QRC Medical Affairs Department premises in Doha, while the last day was hosted by QRC Al-Khor Branch. Attended by 15 trainees from different local institutions, the course was delivered by a select group of QRC instructors.
The course had an interactive agenda to facilitate exchange of experience and enrich discussions, by showing how to plan for, develop, and execute a training course for trainers in different fields, types, and levels of training, with a special focus on relevant technical and administrative arrangements, to enable trainers to conduct training for different target groups.
The goals of the program are to improve the skills of training, lecturing, training/meeting session moderation among the participants using effective instructional methods in accordance with the levels and experience of project members; to inform the participants about different scientific definitions of training; to highlight the importance of training in enhancing the proficiency, potential, and skills of the human element; to clarify the general goals of training programs and their role in knowledge acquisition, behavior change, and performance improvement in first aid; to explain the process and conditions of successful training; and to increase the proficiency of participants in designing training programs, including identifying training needs, setting program goals, selecting methods of instruction, and evaluating program effectiveness.
Rashid bin Saad Al-Mohannadi, Director of QRC Social Development Department and Al-Khor Branch, said that the purpose of this program is to prepare theoretically and practically qualified trainers, particularly in first aid, who are adept at designing, delivering, and assessing training courses using scientific and competent ways. This is not something new, as QRC organizes such courses regularly throughout the year."
Dr Mohalal Ahmed, a QRC medical volunteer and trainee of the program, thanked QRC for holding such types of training courses, which qualify its staff to train others in how to deal with injured people. He stressed the urgent need to know first aid basics for instant response to everyday accidents, as well as increasing trainees in the region.
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