Date (place) |
Activity |
Brief description |
Every Tuesday |
Community ophthalmology for ophthalmology residents |
Course covers all aspects of community ophthalmology (including management, planning, epidemiology, research) |
Every Thursday |
VISION 2020 for AMO-O cataract surgeons |
Course covers all aspects of cataract surgeon roles in VISION 2020 |
Jan 13 & Feb 3 |
Prevention of blindness for occupational therapy students |
Annual two day session on prevention of blindness for Tumaini University occupational therapy students |
Jan 16 (Dar es Salaam) |
Cataract surgeon meeting |
Review findings from impact assessment & train surgeons in strategies to improve productivity |
Jan 23-27 (Moshi) |
DRS training (teams from Tanga & Singida) |
Training of DRS team members (in collaboration with HKI) |
Jan 30-Feb 2 (Tanga) |
CDD training |
Training of CDD in testing vision, recording, and referral (in collaboration with HKI) |
Feb 24 (Moshi) |
District eye coordinators training on follow up of children with cataract |
Train MoH district eye coordinators on how they can support follow up children who have had cataract surgery |
Mar 6-24 (Moshi) |
Instructional materials for VISION 2020 |
Instruction in how to lay out material for printing (brochures, manuals, booklets, posters, etc.) |
Apr 17-21 (Moshi) |
Ophthalmologist Head of Department Management Course |
Course for ophthalmologist head of department on how to use managers |
Apr 24-27 (Moshi) |
Eastern Africa meeting on planning for VISION 2020 |
Session to create training materials for teaching implementation planning & train up the trainers |
May 8-18 (Moshi) |
Alcon equipment and instrument course |
Course on various eye equipment and instruments |
May 9-12 ( Kampala) |
National VISION 2020 planning workshop-Uganda |
Workshop to prepare the next 5 year national plan for VISION 2020 in Uganda |
June 5-7 (Moshi) |
Follow up of children who have received cataract surgery |
Workshop for regional eye coordinators on the skills necessary to provide clinical follow up of children who have had surgery for cataract (at KCMC Hospital) |
Sep 4-15 ( Cape Town) |
University of Cape Town Community Ophthalmology. Certificate course |
Training by KCCO staff on management for VISION 2020 programmes |
Sep 25-29 (Arusha) |
VISION 2020 District planning |
Regional planning workshop for Arusha region and Manyara region (training of MoH and partners in target setting, etc.) |
Oct 16-Dec 8 (Moshi) |
Community Ophthalmology Certificate course |
8 week course for VISION 2020 programme managers/coordinators |
Nov 13-17 (Moshi) |
Bridging strategies course |
Training in how to set up “bridging strategies” for linking communities to hospitals. |
Nov 20-Dec 1 (Moshi) |
Management for VISION 2020 programme managers course |
2 week management course (strategies to improve management of VISION 2020 programmes) |
Dates to be set:
- Low vision “case managers” training (DECs)
- Low vision and childhood cataract management at the regional level
- Tanzania regional optometrists training on low vision
- Schools for the blind survey standardization workshop & survey activities
- Provincial VISION 2020 Planning Workshop (2 provinces in Mozambique)
- Training of teams for implementing bridging strategies (counseling, community optometry, community activities, budgeting, etc.)