Practical Approach to Care Kit (PACK) training materials
| Training material | Description | Purpose | When it is used | Used by whom |
| PACK Adult guide http://pack.bmj.com/ | A comprehensive, evidence-informed, clinical decision support tool for adult primary care, that is localised to local policies and protocols. | To support health workers to deliver comprehensive, integrated, policy aligned care in each consultation | In all PACK training sessions | Health workers, PACK Facility and Master Trainers |
| PACK Board game and answer sheet | A board game for 2-6 players where players take turns to look in the PACK guide for answers to questions posed on the board. | To introduce the scope and value of PACK in an interactive, funway, it prompts participants to explore the features and clinical content of the guide, (particularly priority conditions) as well as health systems issues. | Training sessions Stake holder meetings | PACK Facility Trainers, Master Trainers and presenters of the PACK programme |
| PACK guide infographic | This one-pager outlines the content and features of the PACK guide. | To use as a talk tool to summarise the PACK guide features in a standardised way. | Introductory training sessions | PACK Facility Trainers and Master Trainers |
| PACK programme infographic | A one-page infographic which outlines the four pillars of the PACK programme | Touse as a talk tool to summarise the four pillars of the PACK programme | Introductory training sessions | PACK Facility Trainers and Master Trainers |
| Waiting room scene | An illustration of a waiting room of patients with each depicting a clinical case scenario. The scene is familiar to participants with respect to its busyness and demography. | This serves as the curriculum for the training. Participants relate to the people in it as local patients with a real-life story to tell. It also prompts discussion of their own waiting room experiences as health workers. | To introduce the clinical component of the training and to introduce each case scenario | PACK Facility Trainers and Master Trainers |
| Case scenarios | These are clinical scenarios or stories linked to the people in the waiting room scene. | To guide participants to navigate specific content and features of the PACK guide. | The case scenarios are used in all onsite training sessions | PACK Facility Trainers and Master Trainers |
| Case template | This is a standardised format for the delivery of each case scenario. It supports the trainer to provide clinical details of the case only when prompted to do so by participants’ use of the PACK guide. | Serves as a script to train a case scenario so that the primary focus is the use and features of the PACK guide rather than the clinical detail of the case. | The case template is used to structure all case scenario trainingsessions and can serve as a script for discussions about health workers’ own patients. | PACK Facility Trainers and Master Trainers |
| Training Video https://youtu.be/b1fgr7pCYJA | This demonstrates an onsite training session. | To showcase the PACK training approach, highlighting the four-step approach to delivering an onsite session and onsite training, facilitation skills and the PACK training principles. | Training sessions Stakeholder meetings | PACK Facility Trainers and Master Trainers and presenters of the PACK programme |
| PACK guide video https://youtu.be/ZDSpbqQOmoU | An explanation of the development of the PACK guide and its features | To demonstrate and explain the use and features of the PACK guide, to ensure that the key aspects of the guide are conveyed by trainers in a standardised way | Training sessions Stake holder meetings | PACK Facility Trainers, Master Trainers and presenters of the PACK programme |
| PACK programme overview video | The PACK overview video shows a case study of the implementation of the PACK programme in the Western Cape province, South Africa. | To give insight into the PACK programme and how it is implemented and allow the voices of end-users to be heard. | Training sessions Stake holder meetings | PACK Master Trainers and presenters of the PACK programme |
| Training records | Onsite training record Participant training record of cases covered. | The PACK training records are used as attendance records, to monitor training activities, compile training reports and for the issuing of certificates. | Onsite sessions | Facility Trainers and Participants |
| Facility Trainers’ Manual | This describes the PACK training methodology, onsite session structure and programme administrative processes. | To provide step-by-step instructions for being a PACK Facility Trainer | Given out during the Facility Trainers’ Workshop, to be used to facilitate onsite training sessions | PACK Facility Trainers |
| Master Trainers’ Manual | This provides a step-by-step guide on how to deliver the Facility Trainers’ workshop. | This manual supports the Master Trainers to prepare and conduct a Facility Trainers’ workshop. | Given out during the Master Trainers workshop, to be used to run a Facility Trainers’ workshop | PACK Master Trainers |