Mid-Level Practicum: NSI Nick Simons Institute

Mid-Level Practicum

Providing clinical skills to the paramedics who form the backbone of the rural health care team.

National Need

Study shows poor clinical skills in mid-level workers, usually trained under private institutes.
Mid-levels provide the main clinical service outside of hospitals

Course Description

2.5 month course
Concentrates on 20 common syndromes (using algorithms for decision making) and on 10 common medical procedures

Results

Graduates during pilot phase increased their average skill scores from 37 to 93%.
Government has adopted the course as the national training of senior auxiliary health workers (about 6000 total)

Nick Simons Institute

The Nick Simons Institute is a Nepal-based organization whose mission is to innovate solutions in rural healthcare –through training and hospital support– and to advocate for their scale up with the government of Nepal.

Contact Us

Nick Simons Institute

Box 8975, EPC 1813
Sanepa, Lalitpur, Nepal
Phone: 977-1-5520322, 5550318
Fax: 977-1-5554250
Email: nsi@nsi.edu.np

National Need	Study shows poor clinical skills in mid-level workers, usually trained under private institutes. Mid-levels provide the main clinical service outside of hospitals
Course Description	2.5 month course Concentrates on 20 common syndromes (using algorithms for decision making) and on 10 common medical procedures
Results	Graduates during pilot phase increased their average skill scores from 37 to 93%. Government has adopted the course as the national training of senior auxiliary health workers (about 6000 total)