A comprehensive approach
Interburns approach to improving the quality of burn care aims to turn KNOWLEDGE into ACTION. The approach includes:
Operational Standards setting out human and physical resources needed to provide good quality services in resource-limited settings.
The Delivery Assessment Tool (DAT) to identify strengths and gaps, and track changes over time.
Community burn prevention (CBP) and training in Basic Burn Care (BBC).
Training in Essential Burn Care (EBC) and Advanced Burn Care (ABC); and research.
Core training:
Community Burn Prevention (CBP), Basic Burn Care (BBC) and Essential Burn Care (EBC) are locally owned and delivered after Training of Trainers (TOT) by an Interburns team.
Advanced Burn Care (ABC) is a 5 day intensive programme in Surgery, Nursing or Rehabilitation delivered by Interburns international faculty.
Bespoke Training: Interburns delivers training on a consultancy basis, including: 20 EU Burn Assessment Teams (BAT) for deployment in mass casualty scenarios; online EBC for UK Med staff rostered for deployment; training within the EU rescEU programme (to be delivered 2024/25).
Fellowships: Interburns’ Training Centres (ITCs) offer opportunities in surgery, nutrition or rehabilitation, giving staff the knowledge and skills needed to set up or manage a comprehensive burn service on return to their home country.
Core programmes
Community Burn Prevention (CBP) and Basic Burn Care (BBC)
Community volunteers and families do much to prevent burns from happening, while primary health workers are often the first point of call for burn-injured patients. Effective prevention and good first aid can make the difference between a full and active life or long-term recovery, life threatening infection and disability.
Community Burn Prevention(CBP) is a short programme aimed at community volunteers, organisations, or individuals.
Basic Burn Care (BBC) is a 1 day training covering prevention, first aid, initial treatment, and referral.
Interburns trains local staff to deliver training adapted to the setting and language. Resources are handed to local partners for wider roll out. It has been piloted and adopted in districts of Nepal, Ethiopia, the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) and India.
Download the Handbook on First Aid Treatment for Burns (English) to share at community level. Please click to see the Handbook in:
Essential Burn Care (EBC)
The vast majority of burns are ‘mild’ or ‘moderate’. Essential Burn Care (EBC) emphasises the management of these cases to help reduce the global burden of morbidity and mortality from burn injuries.
EBC is a face to face 1 day course for staff including surgeons, nurses, therapists, and nutritionists, typically from secondary and tertiary level hospitals. It covers key aspects, from emergency care to rehabilitation with sections on psychosocial care linked to pain, suffering and stigma, and paediatric burns.
The focus is on KNOWLEDGE to ACTION through participatory team work around a multi-modal interactive approach.
Download the EBC Training Manual in English or French below.
Essential Burn Care (EBC) is also available as an online course.
Advanced Burn Care (ABC)
Advanced Burn Care (ABC) is a 5 day ‘hands on’ training programme in separate modules - Rehabilitation, Nursing and Surgery supporting core members of the burn team.
ABC focusses on developing real world skills and decision-making abilities that can be put into practice in challenging environments with limited resources.
Each module has been developed by teams of burn practitioners with extensive knowledge of treating acute burns in resource poor settings. To date, over 200 staff have taken part in ABC training from national and regional burn centres and services across Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
Bespoke programmes
Specialist and ad hoc training.
Interburns develops and delivers specialist training programmes using innovative materials and excellent faculty. Programmes include:
European Burn Assessment Team (BAT) Training. Developed as a pilot course training 5 BAT teams in 2020 and delivered to a further 15 teams in 2022/2023.
Online Essential Burn Care (EBC) : Piloted online in 2021 and delivered again in 2022.
In 2016, Interburns ran a 4 day workshop in Rome for multidisciplinary MSF staff based in North Africa focussing on the essentials of acute and reconstructive burn management.
Mentorship for Burn Care Improvement: an innovative programme with the Centre for Global Burn Injury Policy & Research to help nurses, therapists and nutritionists develop solutions to common problems, and implement them for sustained change.
Burns in a conflict scenario: In 2017 and 2019, two programmes for WHO staff based in Idlib Province, Northern Syria covered emergency, acute and treatment phases and special topics through lectures, skill stations, scenarios and discussions groups. Courses in English and Arabic were delivered to medical staff, nurses, paramedics and staff from MSF by faculty from the UK, Palestine, Syria and Greece.
Fellowships
Interburns Training Centres (ITC)
Interburns partners with high quality burn centres for longer term programmes of 3 -6 months. ITCs are a vital part of Interburn’s international network and expert clinicians from ITCs regularly joining our training programmes as faculty.
Fellowships are an opportunity to see how a comprehensive burn service in a low resource setting can be run. The primary focus is on clinical care, but fellows are exposed to all aspects of burn management within an integrated system, from primary prevention to rehabilitation, administration, fundraising and advocacy.
We are happy to receive applications for ITC fellowships.
Please download and print the application form here.
Complete all sections, attach a letter of support from your supervisor or hospital and show you have read and understood the funding arrangements.
Please return the form to office@interburns.org
