A comprehensive approach
Interburns aims to turn KNOWLEDGE into ACTION with a comprehensive approach that includes:
Operational Standards: the human and physical resources needed to provide good quality services in resource-limited settings.
A Delivery Assessment Tool (DAT) that identifies strengths and gaps, tracking change over time.
Training at Primary, Intermediate and Advanced level.
Research.
Core training:
Community Burn Prevention (CBP) and Basic Burn Care (BBC) provide the essentials of prevention and first aid at community and primary level.
Essential Burn Care (EBC) is a one day course for nurses, doctors, therapists and nutritionists.
Advanced Burn Care (ABC) is a 5 day intensive programme in separate modules for core members of the burn team: Surgery, Nursing and Rehabilitation. It is delivered by international faculty.
Bespoke training: We develop training on a consultancy basis, for instance for mass casualty burn scenarios; psychosocial training for nurses, or online.
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 can help prevent burns and 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.
Download the Handbook on First Aid Treatment for Burns (English) 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 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.
Download the EBC Training Manual in English or French below.
Essential Burn Care (EBC) is available as an online course.
Advanced Burn Care (ABC)
Advanced Burn Care (ABC) is a 5 day training programme supporting core members of the burn team. It is delivered in separate modules - Rehabilitation, Nursing and Surgery. ABC focusses on developing real world skills and decision-making abilities that can be put into practice in challenging environments.
Each module has been developed by teams of burn practitioners with extensive knowledge of treating acute burns in a variety of settings. To date, over 250 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, including:
EU Burn Assessment Team (BAT) Training. Developed and delivered to 20 BAT teams from 2020 -2023.
Psychosocial Training: Developed and delivered in Gaza and the West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) in 2022. Adapted for delivery to nurse case managers in Pakistan in 2024.
In 2016, 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 staff develop solutions to common problems, and implement them for sustained change.
Burns in a conflict scenario: Two programmes for WHO staff based in Idlib Province, Northern Syria covering emergency, acute and treatment phases and special topics. Courses in English and Arabic delivered to medical staff, nurses and paramedics from MSF by faculty from the UK, Palestine, Syria and Greece.
Fellowships
Interburns Training Centres (ITC)
Interburns partners with high quality burn centres to provide training fellowships in burn surgery, nursing and rehabilitation (physiotherapy). Fellowships are a unique opportunity to see how a comprehensive burn service in a low resource setting can be run.
The duration varies from 1 -6 months depending on the training objectives. ITCs are a vital part of Interburns’ international network and expert clinicians from ITCs regularly join our training programmes as faculty.
While the primary focus is on clinical care, fellows are also exposed to all aspects of burn management within an integrated system, from primary prevention to rehabilitation and recovery/reintegration.
Please read more about fellowships at these current centres of excellence:
Surgical Fellowships, Kirtipur Hospital, Nepal;
Surgical Fellowships, Sushma Koirala Memorial Hospital (SKMH), Nepal;
Nursing Fellowships, Kirtipur Hospital, Nepal
Nursing Fellowships, Sushma Koirala Memorial Hospital (Nepal)
Rehabilitation Fellowships, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Ghana.
Please download the application form here.
