Comm Eye Health Vol. 31 No. 102 2018. Published online 31 July, 2018
Human resources and training
A strong eye health workforce is essential if we are to achieve the goal of universal eye health for all. Setting aside funds to train, recruit and employ eye health workers, and motivate them to stay where they are needed, should be seen as an investment rather than a cost. In this issue, 16 authors from five continents share the lessons they have learnt. Their stories remind us that the eye health workforce is made up of individual human beings, all of whom deserve to be valued and treated with respect. We look forward to your feedback – what have you tried, and what did you learn?
Articles in this issue –
- Investment in human resources improves eye health for all
- Human Resources for eye health: ensuring a smooth pipeline
- Selecting and training candidates to suit their role
- My journey: from clinician to educator
- Developing training programmes for eye teams
- Competency training: Using the ICO cataract rubric to learn and teach cataract surgery
- Recruiting and distributing eye health workers
- Recruiting for local needs
- How to create a balanced eye team: an example from Malawi
- Policy making to address imbalances in human resources for eye health in rural Kenya
- Encouraging eye care workers to stay: the role of investment and management
- Retention through career development: on-the-job training in Trinidad
- Investing to improve conditions for retention and satisfaction at a paediatric eye centre in South Sulawesi, Indonesia
- Guatemala: How we create a welcoming workplace for our staff and patients
- Tips for team management
- Leading and managing a team
- How to enhance your own development as a teacher and learner
- Achieving universal eye health coverage: planning and human resource lessons from trachoma
- Key community eye health messages
From our South Asia Edition –
- Evidence-based management of eye care delivery
- VISION 2020 INDIA’s annual conference
- Nepal: self-reliant in ophthalmic human resources
- Human Resources for eye health in South Asia
- Paediatric eye care team: a comprehensive approach
- Competency-based assessment as a reliable skill building strategy for allied ophthalmic personnel
- Building an eye care team in rural areas: a central Indian case study
- Football to eyeball: thinking out of the box to create an ophthalmic talent pool in difficult geographies
- Effective engagement of community health workers in primary eye care in India