Basic Malaria Microscopy
This training module on basic malaria microscopy is in two separately bound parts. Part 1, the Learner’s Guide, contains all the technical information that will be needed by trainees in this field. Part 2, the Tutor’s Guide, gives extensive advice for those responsible for organizing, running, and evaluating training programs.
This training was developed following years of experience in malarious countries. It deals with each step of the diagnostic routine in the correct sequence, encouraging trainees to build skills and confidence in a sequence of steps that mirror the day-to-day routine in their future jobs. Emphasizing the advantages of learning by doing, the training programme relies heavily on the use of such enjoyable learning techniques as role-play, group discussions, field work, and supervised practice sessions, with lecture presentations kept to a minimum.
- Tool Designer Organization:
- World Health Organization
- Download:
- Part 1 Learner's Guide
in English
Part 2 Tutor's Guide in English, in French
- Contact:
- CDS - HTM Information Resource Centre, World Health Organization
Summary of main features
- Purpose
- System for training health workers and laboratory staff to become proficient in the microscopic diagnosis of malaria
- Scope of interventions
- Diagnosis - microscopy
- Limitations
- Output
- Teaching microscopy to public health and laboratory personnel
- Time frame
- Potential users
- Public health and laboratory personnel
- Skills required
- The tutors should have experience in malaria microscopy
- Type of software
- User manual available
- NA
- Type and length of training required
- NA
- Available languages
- English, French, and Arabic
- Country applications
- Last update and version
- 2001 (first publication in 1991). Those documents are being considered for revision as per 2006 Informal consultation on quality control of malaria microscopy