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SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES DONE DURING CASE STUDY DEVELOPMENT 15TH

TO 18TH

DECEMBER 2015

Name of Activity: Case study development Workshop

Dates of Activity: 15th to 18th December 2015

Location of Activity: Nobleza Hotel, Kicukiro District, Kigali – Rwanda.

FIRST DAY OF THE WORKSHOP (16th

December 2015)

1. Background

This activity brought together academic staff from both University of Rwanda College of agriculture, Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine

(UR-CAVM) and College of Medicine and Health Sciences (UR-CMHS). Among these participants, some were lecturers, assistant lecturers and

Tutorial Assistant. In addition, other invited guests were, the Dean of CMSH and Dean of CAVM. The workshop was organized by OHCEA Focal

person in collaboration with the OHCEA Country administrator. The workshop was facilitated by Dr. Robert Kibuuka, Dr. Janetrix Hellen M.

Amuguni and a member of the OHCEA Secretariat, Timothy Wakabi.

ONE HEALTH WORKFORCE

PROJECT

Dr. Robert Kibuuka Focal Person, OHCEA/Rwanda Participants from Both Colleges (UR-CAVM) & (UR-CMHS). Dr. Hellen Amuguni from Tufts University

2. Introduction to case study development

The program was started in the morning of 16th

around 09:00 am, Dr. Robert Kibuuka, Focal person of One Health Central and Eastern Africa-

Rwanda opened program by welcoming all participants, here Dr. Kibuuka gave background of workshop and how it is incorporating One-health

competencies through workshop development.

Dr. Robert Kibuuka highlighting the time table of the week that will be followed and requested participants to introduce themselves in brief( their

names, college and their area of Interest).

Dr. Robert Kibuuka invite Dr. Hellen Amuguni from Tufts University to make Review of the One Health core competencies and taught

Participants key components of one health to get optimal health where she said that one health brings together Human health, Animal health and

Environment to attain sustainable health.

She defined One health as a collaborative effort of multiple disciplines used to address complex health challenges at the local, national and Global

Stage.

She said that One Health is an approach not a discipline! It’s an old concept, since days of hipocrates.

She remind participants on Core competencies and highlighting on:

Skills we want to people to know, be it students after their graduation.

Shared key core competencies.

Soft skills- management, communication

Technical skills- epidemiology, ecosystem, risk analysis, infectious disease management.

Who is our target audience, Students graduate and undergraduates +Ministries.

PBL (Problem based learning- to students):

In her words, she said that if we think of One Health Core competencies, we have to start seeing knowledge, skills and behavior that can be

measured whether for a worker of for a learner so that a One Health practitioner can communicate to community and can respond to an outbreak,

Ecosystem Health Risk Analyses, Infectious Disease Management, Outbreak investigation and Response, One Health Concept and Knowledge,

Human-animal-Environment interaction.

After wards she requests all participants to use these case studies in the class while teaching their students, she said that this will help students to

become One Health practitioner after fulfilling their academic journey.

Dr. Robert Kibuuka took over the next presentation and made introduction to case study development and identification of key themes for One

Health case studies; made an introduction to case study development and enlightened the definition of One Health, Definition of case study, types

of case study and elements of case study.

Case study development, Dr. Robert Kibuuka enlightened on:

Definition of case studies, Why case studies (Stimulate real life), Rationale, learning objectives, instructional goal, learning objectives, steps

towards your own case study

Dr. Benon Assimwe share with participants case of Anthrax with death of peoples.

Dr. Charles Nkuranga share with participants on a story on case study in 2003! On Carcass found in akagera National park, suspected

avian influenza.

Dr. Robert Kibuuka showed participants how these stories are very important to facilitate case study development.

Dr. Robert Kibuuka explained more about the meaning of facilitator and Participant where he said “Who is the facilitator (facilitator matter

specialists, draw knowledge and fill up the gaps, focus on adult education: how to teach adults, establish existing knowledge and build on it.”

After this presentation, Dr. Hellen breaks participants into 6 groups in such way that each group has participants from both colleges (College of

Medicine (CMHS) and College Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine (CAVM) participants brainstorm and develop case study of their choice.

By 11: 57 AM Dr. Hellen after tea breaks: she explained more on the following points:

What do we want to achieve.

Themes:

Disease outbreak investigation (You want your students to end up with knowledge on how to investigate an outbreak)

What knowledge, what skills do you want your students get to know after the case.

Dr. Hellen Amuguni shared with participants a video on fetal infestation of West Nile Virus to help them for analysis and deep understanding on

how you can develop a case study basing on their chosen case study.

From here, participants develop goals and Learning objectives for each case study where after 2 hours they made Presentation of goals and

Learning objectives to entire group.

Additionally through their presentations until the closure of day participants was showing to facilitators that they were able to diagnose,

respond and implement to an outbreak using one health approach.

SECOND DAY OF THE WORKSHOP (17th

DECEMBER 2015)

The agenda of the day was started in the morning of 16th

around 09:00 am, here Dr. Robert Kibuuka Welcome all participants and call them to

make evaluation of the previous day (day one evaluation) activity where participants were requested to answer the following questions (what you

liked most? What new thing you learnt? What needs improvement? What was not clear?).

After this evaluation, the participants were again grouped to work on the assignments that they were assigned.

The assignment that was given was about to designing a case study.

Designing a case study:

As it was taught by the facilitator, to design this, everyone should start with mapping a way toward achieving

Big goals

Objectives

Contents developed basing on the learning objectives

This was explained basing on the Big rocks, pebbles and sand philosophy

Setting goals:

Participants were given a list of active verbs that needs to be considered while setting goals.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Learning objectives are built based on the set Goals, Each goal should consist of a number of learning objectives.

As explained, the learning objectives should be SMRAT. This means Specific, Measurable, Achievable, and Realistic and should be consisted in a

Time bound.

After the explanation on how to develop the learning objectives, attendants were subjected to use examples of the case study they were developing

and develop its learning objectives. Here, every group gave learning objectives to each Goal that was previously set.

This exercise was followed by presentations where each presented outcome of their exercises.

Presentation of case studies, and analytical questions & Comments from group: these are 6 groups with chosen topics

A= Suspicion of Plague Outbreak

B=Outbreak of jaundice in rural community of Nyarurembo

C= Parasitic zoonotic infection in the refugee camp

D=Pesticide poisoning

E= Risk of Schistosomiasis among kayonza rice scheme farmers

F= Awareness and Prevention of Ebola in Rwanda (Case study of the community around volcanoes national park)

After each presentation, comments were done to presentations so that the groups correct their learning objectives and from here, they were

suggested to rework on the assignment.

6 Multidisplinary groups are formed Participants are scattered in multidisplinary groups to develop their topics of case study

DAY THREE SESSIONS (18th

DECEMBER 2015)

This session started at 8 h25 on 18th

December 2015.

Dr. Robert Kibuuka welcome all participants and announce to them that students were supposed to attend case study development will not

come because of governmental program of referendum 2015.

Dr. Hellenn Amuguni had a presentation on Triggers where every group will be designing five triggers based on the learning objectives.

On this day, attendants were assigned the work of revising and commenting the works done by two groups. This was done by exchanging

assignments among groups. Each group was requested to make possible changes by using track changes tool so that their suggestions are seen and

corrected by the corresponding group.

The tactic for track changes, each group was requested to focus on the title, learning objectives, content, structure, style (if easy to read), flow of

the story-case, the identified problem.

After each has submitted its track changes to the group, the next step was revising the comments that each group has made so to have a final copy

to submit to the Trainer.

Each group at the end of the day will submit three copies. The original exercise that was given for corrections, the copy with track changes from

two groups and the final version.

Triggers help the students who will be developing a case study to find out more information on the case being studied

As mentioned, the trigger should be addressing the learning objectives. A way to develop a trigger is by asking a question referring to the stated

learning objectives.

After this exercise, all the groups where requested to link their learning objectives: triggers” to questions. These questions should given answers

that are related to the learning objectives.

On this day which was the last one, each group developed a case study where, they had to give a Title of the case study, a background, a summary,

the goals and learning objectives, Scenario to describe the problem under study and for each scenario, there were questions that the instructor

should expect students to ask after listening to the scenario. These questions should have answers that relates to the learning objectives.

The workshop ended with a speech from Dean of The school of Public health Prof. Manasee Nzayirambaho who saluted the relationship existing

between College of Agriculture, Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine and the College of Medicine and Health Sciences and underlined One

health is being understood among various disciplines and requested academic staff to incorporate the One Health approach in what they teach.

CLOSING SPEECH OF DEAN Prof. MANASEE NZAYIRAMBAHO”

“ I would like to thank OHCEA to bring both College of Agriculture, Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine( CAVM) and the College of

Medicine and Health Sciences (CMHS) together to promote health in a multidisplinary collaboration.

With all the knowledge received on One health, we will integrate it in our curriculum to assure that our students graduate with the One

Health approach that will help them in solving complex health challenges.

This is my first time I meet with Dean of College of Agriculture, Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine( CAVM) , thank you Dean from

CAVM, thank you all Participants and thank you OHCEA brought us and support us from first day up to the end of this Workshop”

Dean of UR-SPH , Prof. Manasee Nzayirambaho Dr. Juvenal Kagarama talk on behalf of OHCEA/ board member

2. Goals & Objectives of Case study development

The specific objectives of this workshop were to bring together academic staff from multiple disciplines so that they strengthen their collaboration

in regard of working in the same line as academicians to appreciate how they can use the one health message while teaching and helping their

students with strategies to solve community health related problems through development of case studies.

3. Target Audience

The targeted audience was staff from CAVM and CMHS in different disciplines including Wildlife management, Public Health and Veterinary

Medicine.

4. Actual Attendance

Total: 27 participants

The following numbers can be obtained from the participant rosters:

Gender representation (22 males, 5 females):

Institution types represented (3 university participants and 1 from OHCEA secretariat):

Disciplines represented (2 attendees from Tufts University, 15 from UR-Veterinary Medicine, 7from UR-Public Health and 2 from UR-

wildlife management and 1 OHCEA-Rwanda)

5. Results

Participants of the workshop were trained on how to develop a case study through designing study Goals, Learning Objectives and Creation of

scenarios.

Participants worked in multidisciplinary groups and each group developed a case study to submit for further corrections by peer reviewers.

6. Reflection

(What went well was that all attendees could be able to develop case studies. The lessons learned were setting Goals for cases studies and their

learning objectives, creation of scenario (triggers) to enable students to understand the problem under study so to find out what could be done.

7. Next Steps

The plan forward is that each group was assigned a task to go home and complete the case study that they started developing and submit it before

21st of January 2016. This will include:

Review of the case study

Identify at minimum 2 case studies that you can use for teaching in your class

Identify Email and contact that you are going to use ,then Inform OHCEA team( Thomothy Wakabi and Dr. Hellen Amuguni)

Send section of your course where you have inserted case studies

8. Appendices

Group Photo after closing ‘CASE STUDY DEVELOPMENT 18th December 2015