ICF education requirements

Catherine Sykes

FDRG survey results • Survey open from 1 February to 27 March + 3 late

responses by mail • Respondents 20 • WHO regions represented:

– EMRO – 0 – WPRO – 1 – SEARO – 2 – AFRO – 2 – EURO – 7 – PAHO – 9

• Countries represented: 13

Forms of education for which ICF education materials are required

Answer Options Already

have what is needed

Have some,

would like more

Do not have and would like

Do not need

Introductory (ICF definitions, model, uses, principles) 12 8 0 0

Clinical applications 6 14 0 0

Administrative data collections 5 10 5 0

Censuses 3 9 6 1

Surveys 2 13 4 0

Disability eligibility 5 11 3 1

Educating others about ICF 7 11 1 0

What types of education materials do you have already or are needed?

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What types of education materials do you have already or are needed?

Already have what is needed

Have some, but need more

Do not have, but would like

Do not need

Sharing and working with others

Answer Options Share with others

Work with others to develop

Information sheets/hand outs/brochures 10 7 Slide sets - introductory 14 6 E-learning tool (in language of students) 3 12 Slide sets - specific applications of ICF 7 11 Slide sets - teaching others to teach ICF 5 13 Case studies - introductory 7 10 Case studies - specific applications of ICF 9 9 Curricula for units in academic courses 5 12 Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) 1 15 Mobile applications (Apps) 2 11 Video/film clip/YouTube 5 8 Database of ICF references 9 10 Work books for independent learning 4 10 Exam/test questions 4 11

Comments from respondents

• Use of ICF based instruments and mapping of existing instruments to ICF

• Education at various levels and for different target audiences (Policy makers and ICF educators specifically mentioned)

• Translations of the ICF e-Learning and ICF practical manual

• Visual rather than textual products • More advanced materials than generally

available • Health sciences curricula

EIC response

‘It is not the EIC task to point who will do any task but people with this expertise should volunteer... We will email to the whole EIC to request assistance with this activity.’ EIC ‘do need (is) people really engaged in the group. We suggest that we ask Collaborating Centres to consider the need for ICF expertise when they nominate their voting members for the EIC ’ ‘ICF educators should be present in … 2 meetings and also participate in 3 conference calls a year.’

Questions

Discussion

Way forward Conclusions