PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Eardley, Will
AU  - Bowley, D
AU  - Hunt, P
AU  - Round, J
AU  - Tarmey, N
AU  - Williams, A
TI  - Education and Ebola: initiating the cascade of emergency healthcare training
AID  - 10.1136/jramc-2014-000394
DP  - 2016 Jun 01
TA  - Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
PG  - 203--206
VI  - 162
IP  - 3
4099  - http://militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/162/3/203.short
4100  - http://militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/162/3/203.full
SO  - J R Army Med Corps2016 Jun 01; 162
AB  - In response to the 2014 Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa, the UK deployed a Joint Inter-Agency Task Force to Sierra Leone. As well as constructing Ebola treatment units, the force supported a rapidly upscaled mass programme of training for host nation healthcare workers in basic knowledge of Ebola and personal protective equipment. A bespoke training course was developed in collaboration with the WHO and other partners over a period of 2 weeks, taught to 119 trainers the following week, and then cascaded to over 4000 Ebola workers over the following month. This article describes curriculum design, content delivery and assessment of this unique Training The Trainers course delivered in austere circumstances. Key learning points are highlighted and supplementary material is provided to inform future deployed clinical education initiatives.