Generic Instructor Course (GIC) & Training of Trainors (ToT)

The Generic Instructor Course (GIC) is designed to train potential instructors in how to teach providers’ course material. The principles of how to teach adults in different learning environments are beneficial beyond life support courses, and that which is learned on this course should inform all your teaching.

Facilitator Lectures

Facilitator Lecture 0 (pdf)
Welcome 
Facilitator Lecture 1 (pdf)
Introduction to the principles of adult learning
Facilitator Lecture 2 (pdf)
Effective feedback
Facilitator Lecture 3 (pdf)
Lecturing & presentation skills
Facilitator Lecture 4 (pdf)
Skills teaching
Facilitator Lecture 5 (pdf)
Teaching using simulated scenarios
Facilitator Lecture 6 (pdf)
Facilitating workshops & small group discussions
Facilitator Lecture 7 (pdf)
Assessment

 

Clinical Participant Lectures

Clinical Participant Lecture 1 (pdf)
Low Birthweight Infants 
Clinical Participant Lecture 2 (pdf)
Giving oxygen to an infant 
Clinical Participant Lecture 3 (pdf)
Managing neoantal jaundice
Clinical Participant Lecture 4 (pdf)
Assessing breathing in a sick neonate
Clinical Participant Lecture 5 (pdf)
Cardiac compressions
Clinical Participant Lecture 6 (pdf)
Assessing hypoglycaemia
Clinical Participant Lecture 7 (pdf)
Neonatal Resuscitation – Airways (no meconium)

 

Technical Participant Lectures

Technical Participant Lecture 1 (pdf)
How to setup a bubble CPAP device 

Technical Participant Lecture 2 (pdf)
How a pulse oximeter works 
Technical Participant Lecture 3 (pdf)
How a flow splitter works
Technical Participant Lecture 4 (pdf)
How a suction pump works
Technical Participant Lecture 5 (pdf)
How a phototherapy device works
Technical Participant Lecture 6 (pdf)
How an oxygen concentrator works
Technical Participant Lecture 7 (pdf)
How a radiant warmer works