Purpose

To develop guidelines for injury and violence prevention curricula in schools of public health, medicine, nursing and allied health.

Methods

1. To establish baseline measurements on how many schools include training on injury and violence prevention at a global level.
2. To sample existing injury prevention curricula world wide.
3. To categorize such knowledge within curricula into specific injury-related topics.
4. To create and outline proposed curricula with injury-related topics to be implemented by schools of medicine, nursing, public health and allied health around the world.

Expected outcome

Four recommended curricula to be applied in schools of public health, medicine, nursing and allied health.

Timeline

During a period of two and a half years work will be conducted within 4 areas:

1. A extensive web search of curricula and syllabi related to injury prevention courses around the world.
2. Identification of experts in curricula design for different regions.
3. Work with organizations interested in curricula development such as IFMSA, FIGO and several WHO collaborating centres.
4. Work with University representatives in obtaining and/or designing curricula for injury prevention.

Two meetings will be organized during the whole process

1. Initially to determine the structures that curricula should have in order to adapt them to different educational systems. This will include a strategy on how to best categorize curricula information. The aim is to include experts in curricular design, university representatives and students so as to have a larger pool of experience and input.
2. A second meeting, more content oriented, to determine general injury prevention topics and categories and prioritize career specific injury topics targeted to specific types of schools.

Collaborating institutions can participate in several ways

1. Help gathering curricula for injury prevention.
2. Contribution for the design of curricula and selection of core topics, and identification of barriers and strengths for implementation of such curricula.
3. Contribution to the classification of injury topics and selection of appropriate content areas as well as methods for implementing the curricula.

Join the most recent WHO/IFMSA project: Curricula Development Project on Injury Prevention.

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