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During 2005

330 Ambulance-Feldschers are receiving a basic training in emergency care, so that at the end of 2005 all Ambulance-Feldschers in Kyrgyzstan, besides the ones working in Bishkek, will have completed a basic course in emergency care.
If possible, local head staff is being recruited and trained

During 2006

800 FAP-Feldscher will receive a basic course in emergency care.
550 Ambulance-Feldschers will receive an advanced course in emergency care
Local head staff will receive further training

The future plan for the Ambulance Trainers would be primarily to provide Continual Medical Education (CME) for the approximately 400-450 FMC Emergency Medicine department workers (mostly Feldschers but some nurses), except in Bishkek and Osh, where emergency medicine Continuing Medical Education is already available. IV training

They would annually teach courses in emergency care with different emphasis. The new Ambulance Feldscher trainers would

also help the other FAP-Feldscher trainers in the future to teach the emergency medicine portion of the FAP Feldscher retraining course.

All trainers’ graduates continue to work part time practicing in FAPs or ambulance services paperwork as well as work part-time at the Kyrgyzstan State Medical Institute as teachers.

Since the program is included in the well tested CME infrastructure of Kyrgyzstan State Medical Institute, a sustainability and organizational success should be guaranteed. Even so, we think for the future it is important to train people who can take over STLI’s consulting role for the Feldscher CME program.

For the current program, the World Bank covers only the trainees, the local trainers and equipment cost. To be able to function as an independent consulting team, we have to find our own funds to cover daily expenses, research costs, and partly supervision and curriculum development costs plus costs for exploring new training possibilities.

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