The WoundPedia™ Wound Care Basics (WWCB) is an interprofessional course designed to introduce physicians, nurses, and other health professionals to the basics of skin and wound care.
The objective is to provide a foundational educational experience for the generalist health care professional on the essentials of basic skin and wound care. For the healthcare professional with previous wound care education and/or those who completed the basic course, the WoundPedia™ Wound Care Intermediate Course (WWCI) was designed.
Both are two-day intensive courses offered in partnership with WoundPedia™ through a generous educational grant from Calmoseptine®. WoundPedia™ is a non-profit Canadian organization that aims to improve the lives of persons with chronic wounds worldwide.
Since 2013, the WoundPedia Basic and Intermediate Courses have been serving as valued educational programs in the Philippines. Under the direction of a nurse-doctor team from Canada, USA, Bahrain and the UAE, over 300 health care professionals both civilian and military have benefitted from these free courses.
In 2016, the offering of the course was made through the military nurses of the Philippines. In 2019, the University of the Philippines Manila College of Nursing joined the partnership as the Continuing Professional Development provider and recruiter of the nonmilitary nurses.
Current course directors are Dr. R. Gary Sibbald, Professor of Medicine and Public Health, University of Toronto; CEO WoundPedia, Project Lead ECHO Ontario, Skin and Wound Care; Director of the International Interprofessional Wound Care Course (IIWCC) & Masters of Science Community Health (Prevention and Wound Care); Dalla Lana Faculty of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada; Co-Editor in Chief, Advances in Skin and Wound Cares and Dr. Elizabeth A. Ayello, Faculty, Excelsior College School of Nursing; Co-Editor in Chief, Advances in Skin and Wound Care; President, World Council of Enterostomal Therapists (WCET®); and Senior Adviser, Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing, NYU, New York, USA.
Future directions of the collaboration include the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement to continue the offering of the basic and intermediate courses including the development of blended learning format of the courses, interprofessional collaboration in the care of patients through the nursing clinics of UPCN with the support of the PGH Department of Nursing Service and other medical departments, and research collaboration between partners.
Published in UP Manila Healthscape No. 372 (January – February 2019)
