PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Course Description: The Philippine Essential Newborn Care & Resuscitation Program imparts a globally accepted, evidence-based approach to care of the newborn at birth and enables effective teamwork for healthcare professionals who attend to mothers and newborns at the time of delivery in the Philippines. Developed by the Philippine Society of Newborn Medicine IN 2017, this training program has been dubbed NRPh PLUS — Newborn Resuscitation in the Philippine setting, Low birth weight support (KMC) and Lactation support, Unang Yakap (EINC), StaT (Stabilization and transport) — to reflect the core topics included. This course has been endorsed by the Philippine Pediatric Society (PPS) - Hospital Accreditation Board and is primarily intended for board-certified physicians prior to or in their first year of specialty residency training in institutions accredited by the PPS. The program may also be undertaken by Pediatricians and other medical specialists for continuing professional development, as well as nurses, midwives, other health workers and undergraduate students who provide care for mothers and their newborns in the Philippines. The five learning modules of the course consist of the folloing: Essential Intrapartum and Newborn Care (EINC), Lactation Management, Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC), Addvanced neonatal resuscitation and Stabilization of the newborn for transport (STaT). The NRPh+ Hybrid Provider’s Course incorporates various learning methods, including self-instructional modules, asynchronous didactic lectures, SCORPIO (Structured, Clinical, Objective, Referenced, Problem Orientated, Integrated and Organised) stations and hands-on case-based simulation/debriefing that target interpersonal, communication, evaluation, teaching and teamwork skills. The face-to-face SCORPIO stations involves delivering a syllabus through a series of lecture-demonstrations at which student and teachers gather at a defined area. Following a short introductory lecture, students rotate in small groups, through a series of teaching stations. These stations are structured to provide students with a problem-based, integrated learning experience. Assessments are done before and after the teaching circuit. Upon completion of viewing the recorded didactic lectures, the face-to-face skills stations following the SCORPIO method, including satisfactory performance in an on-line or written Pretest, OSCE and Simulation Exam, the learner will receive certification as provider of Essential Intrapartum and Newborn Care, Lactation Support, Initiating Kangaroo Mother Care, Newborn Resuscitation, and Neonatal Stabilization and Transport. Duration of certification is 3 years. Trainers include members of the Philippine Society of Newborn Medicine, select members of the Philippine Pediatric Society and post-Residency Fellows of accredited Newborn Medicine Training Programs who have completed the 3-day NRPh+Training of Trainers. Provider’s Courses are conducted quarterly by the institutions with Neonatology Fellowship Training Programs and NRPh+ Committees in the provinces for all health care workers in all health care settings. Certificates of Training are issued by the PSNbM to all participants who successfully pass the course.

OBJECTIVES

To disseminate statistics on neonatal morbidity and mortality globally and in the Philippines<br/>To discuss the national framework governing newborn care in the country<br/>

SCHEDULE

Date/s of Conduct	Venue	Attendance
April 24-25, 2024; June 6-7, 2024; August 1-2, 2024; October 3-4, 2024; December 5-6. 2024	Training Room, Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital

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