Effect of network training on clinicians'knowledge of malaria diagnosis and treatment in Yunnan Province

Abstract

To introduce the application of the network training on clinicians' knowledge of malaria diagnosis and treatment in Yunnan Province, and evaluate its effect. Through the platform Yiboshi (www.yiboshi.com), the medical and health personnel at the units of provincial, prefectural, county levels and 25 townships of 25 border counties were trained on the knowledge of malaria diagnosis, treatment, prevention and control, and the effects were evaluated by examinations, questionnaires and interviews. Totally 7 152 participants were trained, the average participation, completion and pass rates of the training were 95.26%, 98.55% and 97.30%, respectively. The trainees mainly learned malaria control knowledge from 3 aspects, namely policy of malaria elimination, malaria epidemiology, malaria diagnosis and treatment. The questionnaires showed that 95.94% of the participants considered that their theoretical and technical levels improved, 97.30% were interested in the training content, 93.24% recognized the arrangement of the training time was reasonable, and 91.89% were satisfied with the service of the platform. The network training on knowledge of malaria diagnosis and treatment in Yunnan Province has achieved good effect. The network training meets the need of training a large number of clinicians in the malaria elimination and post-elimination stage.