Abstract
BACKGROUND: Despite impressive progress that has been made in the provision of health care services to all, the issue of quality service delivery still remains a challenge particularly for point-of-care (POC) diagnostics in resource-limited-settings. Poor competency of primary health care workers in these settings has been shown to be amongst the main contributors to poor quality service delivery.
 
 FINDINGS: Participatory-based continuous professional development (CPD) strategies to support technology advancements in health care are recommended. Experiential learning approaches have been shown to be efficient in supplementing traditional teaching methods for both health care students and professionals. These approaches have been shown to further contribute towards continuous skills development and lifelong learning. 
 
 CONCLUSION: This review therefore provided an overview of literature on experiential learning as one of CPD approaches in relation to health care service improvement in resource-limited setting. In addition, this review has recommended a mobile-based experiential learning approach to help deliver a quality POC technology curriculum to Primary health care-based workers in resource-limited settings.
Highlights
With continuous advances in technologies for prevention and treatment of HIV and TB, continuous professional development (CPD) of health care workers (HCWs) remains a high priority especially, in countries with a dual burden of TB/HIV epidemics (Feldacker et al, 2017; Wirtz et al, 2016)
Experiential learning approaches have been shown to be efficient in supplementing traditional teaching methods for both health care students and professionals
This review provided an overview of literature on experiential learning as one of CPD approaches in relation to health care service improvement in resource-limited setting
Summary
With continuous advances in technologies for prevention and treatment of HIV and TB, continuous professional development (CPD) of health care workers (HCWs) remains a high priority especially, in countries with a dual burden of TB/HIV epidemics (Feldacker et al, 2017; Wirtz et al, 2016). Studies have been conducted to evaluate compliance to the QMS in LMIC, on HIV and TB testing in South Africa (Jaya et al, 2017; Mwisongo, Peltzer, Mohlabane, & Tutshana, 2016). These studies highlighted knowledge gaps and barriers to the provision of quality services in resource limited settings, which include challenges concerning test user perspectives and competency(Jaya et al, 2017; Mwisongo et al, 2016). Poor competency of primary health care workers in these settings has been shown to be amongst the main contributors to poor quality service delivery
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