🏥 Zawadi Memorial Health Training Institute
First Aid & Emergency Care
📅 8‑month Short Learning Programme
🧾 Competence‑Based (CBET)
🇹🇿 Tanzania
Certificate of Completion
SLP category
32 weeks
Practical 70%
proposed award
First Aid & Emergency Care
Introduction & Programme Aim
🩺 First aid for all
Immediate assistance before definitive medical care. Preserves life, prevents deterioration, promotes recovery and timely referral. Designed for communities, schools, workplaces, transport, hospitality and industries.
Graduate profile: competent first aider able to recognise emergencies, assess, protect, perform BLS, manage injuries, communicate and refer.
🎯 Programme objectives (22)
- Explain first aid principles & anatomy
- Assess scene & casualty systematically
- Perform CPR, manage choking & bleeding
- Treat burns, fractures & medical emergencies
- Handle poisoning, bites & environmental cases
- Move casualties safely & facilitate referral
- Act professionally, ethically & confidentially
Programme Structure · 14 modules
| Code | Module | Weeks |
|---|---|---|
| FAE 01 | Foundations of First Aid, Safety & Professional Conduct | 2 |
| FAE 02 | Basic Anatomy and Physiology | 3 |
| FAE 03 | Emergency Scene and Casualty Assessment | 3 |
| FAE 04 | Basic Life Support, CPR and Choking | 4 |
| FAE 05 | Wounds, Bleeding and Shock | 3 |
| FAE 06 | Fractures and Musculoskeletal Injuries | 3 |
| FAE 07 | Burns and Special Injuries | 3 |
| FAE 08 | Common Medical Emergencies | 2 |
| FAE 09 | Poisoning, Bites, Stings & Environmental Emergencies | 2 |
| FAE 10 | Maternal, Pediatric and Special Emergencies | 1 |
| FAE 11 | Casualty Handling, Transportation and Referral | 1 |
| FAE 12 | Disaster and Mass‑Casualty First Aid | 1 |
| FAE 13 | Supervised Practical / Field Attachment | 3 |
| FAE 14 | Integration, Simulation & Final Competency Assessment | 1 |
| Total: 32 weeks | ||
🔄 classroom + lab + simulation
🧪 field attachment (3 weeks)
📋 integrated final scenario
Critical life‑saving competencies
Regardless of aggregate marks, learners must demonstrate competence in: scene safety · casualty assessment · airway management · CPR · choking management · control of severe bleeding · appropriate casualty positioning · activation of referral/emergency services.
🛡️ Safety & infection
- Universal precautions, PPE, hand hygiene
- Scene safety, consent, confidentiality
- Record keeping & referral communication
🫀 BLS & CPR
- Adult / child / infant CPR
- Recovery position, AED awareness
- Choking management (all ages)
🩹 Injury & bleeding
- Wound dressing, bandaging, bleeding control
- Fracture immobilisation, splinting
- Burn care, eye & facial injuries
🚑 Medical & environmental
- Chest pain, stroke, diabetic emergencies
- Seizures, anaphylaxis, asthma
- Poisoning, snakebite, drowning, heat stroke
Teaching, Assessment & Pass requirements
📘 Learning methods
- Interactive lectures, demonstrations, return demos
- Simulation, skills stations, scenario‑based
- Role plays, case studies, group work
- Supervised practice, field visits, logbook
- Self‑directed & peer learning
Practical training is the major component.
📊 Assessment & pass
- Formative: quizzes, skills checklists, observation, logbook
- Summative: theory 30% / practical 70%
- Objective structured skills assessment + integrated scenarios
- Pass: attendance, coursework, logbook, theory, practical competence, final integrated assessment
✅ critical competencies must be passed
Course Fees · 8‑month programme
| Fee Component | TZS per student |
|---|---|
| Tuition and instruction | 700,000 |
| Skills laboratory / practical training | 150,000 |
| Field / clinical attachment supervision | 150,000 |
| Training materials / first‑aid consumables | 100,000 |
| Internal assessments / examinations | 75,000 |
| Registration / administration | 50,000 |
| Student ID / record / logbook | 25,000 |
| Total Course Fees | 1,250,000 |
💳 Payment terms
1st: 500,000 (admission)
2nd: 400,000 (end of 1st phase)
3rd: 350,000 (before field)
⚠️ Other costs: accommodation, meals, transport, uniform, PPE, insurance, external charges – covered separately. Contact institute for estimates.
Graduate Competency Profile & Scope
🎓 A competent First Aider can:
- Recognise emergencies & protect from risk
- Systematic assessment & basic life support
- Manage wounds, bleeding, burns, fractures
- Respond to medical & environmental emergencies
- Safely move casualties & facilitate referral
- Communicate clearly & act professionally
⚕️ Occupational limitations
- Not a licence to diagnose, prescribe, or perform invasive procedures
- Recognise ➔ Respond ➔ Stabilise within competence ➔ Refer
- Does not replace regulated health professionals
Certificate: Short Learning Programme in First Aid & Emergency Care – not a clinical licence.
📌 Quality assurance – qualified trainers, internal/external moderation, skills audits, stakeholder feedback, continuous improvement.
🧰 Essential equipment – CPR manikins (adult/child/infant), AED trainer, first aid boxes, splints, stretchers, anatomical models, PPE, simulation supplies.
👨🏫 Trainers – registered nurses, doctors, clinical officers, emergency care practitioners; appropriate trainer–learner ratio.
📋 Practical logbook – each learner records competencies (CPR, recovery, choking, dressing, splinting, assessment, referral). Signed by supervisor.
Proposed weekly implementation
Weeks 1‑2 Foundations, safety, ethics
3‑5 Anatomy & physiology
6‑8 Scene & casualty assessment
9‑12 BLS, CPR, choking
13‑15 Wounds, bleeding, shock
16‑18 Fractures & musculoskeletal
19‑21 Burns & special injuries
22‑23 Medical emergencies
24‑25 Poisoning, bites, environmental
26 Maternal, pediatric, special
27 Handling, transport, referral
28 Disaster & mass‑casualty
29‑31 Supervised field attachment
32 Integrated simulation & final assessment