Results to be achieved
Work package 1: Coordination of the project
To ensure that project objectives are achieved on time and within budget, by: coordinating and overseeing partners activities and the ETIDE website; organising and administering the onsite training course; facilitating the final preparation and distribution of all course materials; ensuring communication between partners; and preparing meeting reports, notes, and annual reports to the Commission.
The coordination team (project leader, advisor/s, coordinator, secretary, financial administrator) will meet regularly, and will: organise meetings of the specialty board and annual partners' meetings; communicate with partners by email, telephone and teleconference; assist in the production of course materials; organise the onsite training courses (arranging student registration, coordination of teachers, meals and accommodation, teaching facilities, teaching aids; collation results of evaluations); and will be responsible for financial oversight and administration of the project, preparation of annual reports and meeting notes, and dissemination of deliverables.
Work package 2: Dissemination of the results
The common curriculum and course materials developed for ETIDE (CDs, course manuals and E-lessons of interdisciplinary basic core module, specialist teaching modules, and joint simulation module) will be disseminated to the Commission, national health authorities, and the wider medical and scientific community, through the ETIDE website (which will be linked to other EU networks and institutions with convergent interests), and through partners and course participants to their home institutions and national authorities. ETIDE will be given wider publicity by publication in Eurosurveillance, and, when possible, by presentation by partners /participants at national or international scientific meetings.
Work package 3: Evaluation of the project
To evaluate the effectiveness of ETIDE.
Work package 4: Common curriculum on IDEM; Interdisciplinary foundation IDEM training module
To create a common European curriculum on IDEM, and an interdisciplinary foundation module for use in the onsite ETIDE train-the-trainers course, and for wider dissemination through the ETIDE website, covering the topic areas: specific high threat pathogens; biosafety, including sample handling and transport; infection control and transmission prevention; laboratory diagnosis; major incident planning and response, including psychological aspects, risk assessment and management, communication and surge capacity, and to revise these as necessary following evaluation.
Work package 5: Specialist IDEM training module for emergency care clinicians
To extend and enhance the IDEM training for emergency clinicians provided in the interdisciplinary foundation module by developing a specialist IDEM training module for emergency clinicians, covering syndromic presentation of infections, safe triage, basic epidemiology, initial and advanced case management, advanced incident management and response, psychological effects of traumatic events, alerting mechanisms and communications skills, for use in the onsite training course at INMI and wider dissemination via the ETIDE website.
Work package 6: Specialist IDEM training module for nurses and other health care workers
To extend and enhance the IDEM training for nurses and other HCWs provided in the interdisciplinary foundation module by developing a specialist IDEM training module for nurses and other HCWs, covering safe transport of patients, safe triage, safe sampling and sample handling, initial case management, infection control skills, psychological effects of traumatic events, alerting mechanisms and communications skills, for use in the onsite training course at INMI and wider dissemination via the ETIDE website.
Work package 7: Specialist IDEM training module for laboratorians
To extend and enhance the IDEM training for laboratorians provided in the interdisciplinary foundation module by developing a specialist IDEM training module for laboratorians, covering biosafety and biocontainment within CL1-CL4 settings, safe sampling and sample handling, safe transport of specimens, risk-based classification of pathogens, diagnostic procedures for emergent bacterial and viral (including Class 3 and Class 4 agents), alerting mechanisms and communications skills, for use in the onsite training course at INMI and wider dissemination via the ETIDE website.
Work package 8: Interdisciplinary IDE scenario training module
To extend and enhance the IDEM training provided in the foundation and specialist modules by developing an interdisciplinary scenario training module, in which the three specialist groups will join together to learn how to plan, implement and evaluate exercises, develop team working skills and recognise the importance of a cohesive and integrated response to IDEs, and will, during the onsite training course, jointly participate in a basic, ‘ walk-through' simulation.
Work package 9: ETIDE website
To develop and maintain the ETIDE web site (in English), and to use the web site for communications between partners, and course teachers and trainees; to disseminate the common curriculum on IDEs and IDEM, and the ETIDE training course materials more widely as e-lessons; and then to use the website as the link between members of the developing ETIDE network of IDEM trainers in Europe.
Work package 10: Onsite ETIDE train- the trainers course
To “train the trainers” of front line healthcare personnel (emergency care clinicians, nurses, other HCWs, and laboratorians) from EU and other countries in Europe in the management of infectious disease emergencies, equipping them with the skills to transmit this training to front line personnel in their own countries, through an onsite course at INMI, consisting of an interdisciplinary foundation module; three specialist training modules (targeted at emergency care clinicians, nurses and other HCWs, and laboratorians), and an interdisciplinary scenario training module.
Work package 11: ETIDE network
To establish a network of ETIDE trainers to: facilitate cooperation between countries; support, assess and monitor post-course progress of trainees (who, having completed the ETIDE training course, will have the knowledge base and skills needed to enable them to train front line health professional in their own countries); act as a forum for the continuing professional development of established trainers, and contribute to European preparedness for, and response to, infectious disease emergencies.
