SKYTECH EDUCATIONAL CONSULT

CPD PROGRAMME SCHEDULE FOR 2023

INTRODUCTION

You are all welcome to participate in the online (Zoom) Skytech Educational Consult Continuing Professional
Development (CPD) programe for 2023. Renewal of license (PIN) is ongoing and no application will be accepted after
31/12/2023.

The purpose of the workshop is to equip professionals with the requisite skills to enable them to renew their license for
the 2024 calendar year. It must be noted that only details of professionals who have registered using the google form,
made the required payment amount, and have participated in the programme option selected would be sent to Allied
Health Professions Council to be captured into their database.

You should also be aware that, for online programmes such as this, there is a high likelihood of imposters and scammers
who will use all means to defraud participants. To minimize such issues, all communication should be directed to our
trusted administrators or through our E-mail address.

You are also encouraged to join our group chat platform for updates. Be well conversant with the CPD requirements
for your cadre and select the required combination of the CPD topics to meet all the three categories (A, B and C).
Detailed programme outline for this year CPD are displayed in the next section

Thank you,
Pious Appiah
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CPD SCHEDULE FOR 2023
CATEGORY A
Participants Topic Facilitators Date/time(pm)

Medical Day1: Instrumental Techniques in Clinical Analysis Mr. Joseph Esson 11/12/2023
Laboratory 3:00pm -5:00pm
Professionals • Classification of Instrumental Methods
• Preparation of Reagents, Solutions, Buffers and Controls
• Equipment Calibration
✓ Importance of Calibration
✓ Methods of Calibration
• Clinical Analysis Process
✓ Reasons for Requesting a Clinical Analysis
✓ Phases of the Analysis Process
✓ Patient Preparation and Sample Taking

Day 2: Microscopic Techniques in Clinical Analysis Mr. Joseph Esson 12/12/2023

• Introduction and Concept 3:00pm -5:00pm
• Types of Microscopes
✓ Optical Microscopes
✓ Electronic Microscopes
• Lenses, Light and Image Formation
• Management and Maintenance of Light Optical Microscopes
✓ Handling and Properties
✓ Maintenance
✓ Observation Incidents
✓ Application in Clinical Analysis
• Other Microscopes Characteristics and Management
✓ Dark Field Microscope
✓ Polarized Light Microscope
✓ Interference Microscope
✓ Inverted Microscope
✓ Ultraviolet Light Microscope
✓ Fluorescence Microscope

Clinical Pathology Practice and Laboratory Diagnosis Dr. Justice Kumi 13/12/2023
✓ What is clinical pathology and its importance in 14/12/2023
laboratory Practice 15/12/2023
Medical Lab. ✓ Major areas involved in clinical pathology
✓ Major Instrumentations 3:00pm -5:00pm
✓ Specimen collection and handling
✓ Evaluation of results and interpretation

Disease Control Prof. Yaw Asare 11/12/2023

Clinical Management of Malaria
Health Promotion Afrane 3:00pm -5:00pm
Environmental Introduction to Malaria & the Life Cycle of Malaria Parasite
Health
Session Objectives:
• Describe the epidemiology of malaria
• Recognize and understand the vectors and type of
malaria parasite.
• Life cycle of the plasmodium parasite
• Examine how malaria is transmitted.
• Various ways of controlling malaria
• Vulnerability groups
• Malaria and gender
12/12/2023
 Prof. Yaw Asare 3:00pm -5:00pm
Malaria Entomology Afrane
Session objectives:
• Examine the biology and ecology of mosquitoes.
• Distinguish mosquitoes from other insects.
• Distinguishing anophelines from culicines
• Distinguishing female anophelines from males
• Life cycle of anopheline mosquitos
• Malaria vectors in Ghana and bionomics of vector
species

Case Detection, Management, and Chemoprophylaxis 13/12/2023

Dr. Kingley Badu
Session objectives: 3:00pm -5:00pm
• Detection and recognition of malaria
• Diagnosis and treatments techniques
• Severe and complicated malaria cases
• Articulate the progress of malaria control programme in
Ghana.

Modes and Mechanisms of Transmission of Pathogenic 14/12/2025

Organisms and Strategies for Control and Prevention Dr. Adusi Poku 15/12/2023

Session objectives: 3:00pm -5:00pm

• Identify the various types of pathogens.
• Describe how pathogenic organisms are transmitted
(direct and indirect) in the healthcare settings.
• Explain the prevalence of nosocomial infections.
• Describe the different types of reservoirs pathogenic
organisms.
• Identify the factors which influence the outcome of
exposure to pathogens.
• Identify the various ways for preventing transmission of
pathogenic organism.
• Describe how infection control concepts are applied in
professional practices.

Nutrition Obesity and Diabetes: Connection, Risk, and Management Mr Frank Ayimadu 11/12/2023
Dietetics 3:00pm -5:00pm
Health Promotion Day 1: Physiology of Appetite and Weight Control
Community Pathophysiology
Mental Health • Concepts of energy balance and calculation
• Various methods for assessing nutritional status
• Review new pathways, hormonal, metabolic, etc., that
regulate neuroendocrine function, energy homeostasis, and
metabolism in humans
• Analyse subcutaneous adipose tissue and the role of
dysfunctional adipose tissue in the development of obesity
• Explain theole of the intestinal microbiota and its
implications in diseases

Day 2: Etiopathogenesis of Obesity

Mr Frank Ayimadu 12/12/2023
• Genetic factors of monogenic and polygenic obesity 3:00pm -5:00pm
• Ascertain how epigenetics may influence the development of
Obesity
 • Different causes of secondary obesity in relation to
endocrinopathies and drugs
• Establish the relationship between environmental factors and
the development of obesity
• The various endocrine disruptors and their role as
obesogenic agents
• Connection between obesity and level of economic status
• Study how circadian rhythm alterations influence the
expression of enzymes and hormones involved in
metabolism
Miss Naa Nyarkoa 13/12/2023
Day 3: Pathophysiology of Diabetes Gyan-Mantey 3:00pm -5:00pm
• Basic knowledge of glucose homeostasis
• Analyze the etiopathogenic mechanisms of type 1 and type 2
• Understand the essential role of adipose tissue and its excess
(obesity) in the genesis of type 2 diabetes
• Acquire the knowledge and skills of insulin resistance
measurement
• Studying the mediating role of inflammation between obesity
and diabetes
• Ways to prevent or delay the development of type 1 and type
2 diabetes, by acting on the etiopathogenic mechanisms
involved
14/12/2023
Day 4: Diabetes Management (I)
3:00pm -5:00pm
• Management of obesity in the diabetic patient
• Know the most indicated antihypertensive treatments for
diabetic patients and their prescription
• Learn how to prescribe a nutritional plan adapted to each
person with type 1 or type 2 diabetes
• Know the different insulin treatment guidelines for patients
with type 1 diabetes
• Learn to interpret glycemic control results according to
individualized treatment guidelines

Day 5: Therapeutic management of diabetes (II) 15/15/2023

3:00pm -5:00pm
• Acquire knowledge of each of the families of antidiabetic
drugs
• Acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to safely
prescribe DPP4 inhibitors
• Acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to be able to
safely prescribe GLP-1 analogues
• Acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to safely
prescribe type 2 sodium-glucose cotransporter inhibitors
• Acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to safely
prescribe insulins
• Acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for the
management of steroid-induced hyperglycemia

11/12/2023
Sonographers Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Imaging of The Lower Limb Mr Benjamin 3:00pm -5:00pm
Radiographers Day 1: Fundamentals of ultrasound Yamuha
Physiotherapy
Occupational
• Learn what ultrasound and an ultrasound scanner consist
Therapy
Prosthetics & of, their history and their application in physiotherapy
orthotics • Identify the ultrasound patterns of the different structures
of the locomotor system.
 • Study the different artifacts that exist in ultrasound and
learn how to use them in a beneficial way.
• Explain the use of ultrasound by the rehabilitation
physician and its legal considerations.
• Describe the piezoelectric effect and the physical basis of
ultrasound.
• Explain the different components of the equipment.
• Explain the production of the ultrasound image.
• Define the types of images obtained by ultrasound and the
different tissue patterns.
12/12/2023
3:00pm -5:00pm
Day 2: Ultrasound of the Lower Limb: Hip

• Learn the echoanatomy of the different structures of the

hip
• Describe the normal examination of the structures of the
anterior aspect of the hip
• Describe the normal examination of the structures of the
lateral aspect of the hip
• Describe the normal examination of the structures of the
posterior aspect of the hip
• Describe the normal examination of the structures of the
medial aspect of the hip
• Identify the most common lesions of the hip, for a correct
ultrasound-guided treatment and/or follow-up of their
evolution
• Learn how to perform dynamic ultrasound-guided
assessment tests of the hip
• Describe less common pathologies that can affect the hip
13/12/2023
Day 3. Ultrasound of the Lower Limb: Thigh 3:00pm -5:00pm

• Learn the echoanatomy of the different structures of the

thigh
• Describe the normal examination of the structures of the
front aspect the thigh
• Describe the normal examination of the structures of the
lateral aspect the thigh
• Describe the normal examination of the structures of the
posterior aspect the thigh
• Describe the normal examination of the structures of the
medial aspect the thigh
• Log in the most common lesions of the thigh, for a
correct ultrasound-guided treatment and/or follow-up of
their evolution
• Learn how to perform dynamic ultrasound-guided
assessment tests on the thigh
• Describe less common pathologies that can affect the
thigh
• Identify thigh muscles and common muscle injuries

Day 4. Ultrasound of the Lower Limb: knee Mr Benedict Apaw 14/12/2023

Agyei 3:00pm -5:00pm
• Recognize the tendon and ligament structures of the
knee and their most common injuries
• Describe the normal examination of the structures of the
anterior aspect of the knee
• Describe the normal examination of the structures of the
lateral aspect of the knee
• Describe the normal examination of the structures of the
posterior aspect of the knee
 • Describe the normal examination of the structures of the
medial aspect of the knee
• Identify the most common lesions of the knee, for a
correct ultrasound-guided treatment and/or follow-up of
their evolution
• Learn how to perform dynamic ultrasound-guided
assessment tests of the knee
• Describe less common pathologies that can affect the
knee
15/12/2023
Day 5 Ultrasound of the Lower Limb: Leg 3:00pm -5:00pm

• Learn the echanatomy of the different structures of the leg in

all its parts
• Identify leg muscles and the most common leg muscle
injuries
• Describe the normal examination of the structures of the
anterior aspect of the leg
• Describe the normal examination of the structures of the
lateral aspect of the leg
• Describe the normal examination of the structures of the
posterior aspect of the leg
• Learn how to perform dynamic ultrasound-guided
assessment tests of the leg
• Describe less common pathologies that can affect the leg

Health Day 1. Healthcare Data Security, Privacy, and Compliance in Dr. David Nana 11/12/2023
Information the Era of Big Data Adjei 3:00pm -5:00pm
Medical Records
Biostatistician

Health
Information Dr. David Nana 13/12/2023
Day 2 HEALTH RECORDS MANAGEMENT
Officers Adjei 3:00pm -5:00pm
Medical Records • Development of medical records
Biostatistician • How medical Records are prepared, maintained,
retained, and destroyed.
• Trends and Technologies in Medical Records
Management
• Functions of the Medical Records Department
• Various type of format and Forms of Medical records
• Who owns the Medical Records?
• How to reconstruct lost or damage medical records

Health Dr. Abdulzeid Yen 13/12/2023

HEALTH DATA ANALYTICS USING POWER-BI
Information Anafo 3:00pm -5:00pm
practitioners Day 3: Introduction to Power BI
Medical Records
Overview of Power BI: Give an overview of what Power BI is
Biostatistician
and its capabilities. Explain the difference between Power BI
Desktop, Power BI Service, and Power BI Mobile.
Connecting to Data Sources: Show how to connect to different
data sources like Excel files, CSV files, SQL databases, and web
sources. Explain the importance of data modelling and how to
create a basic data model.
Creating Visualizations: Explain the different types of
visualizations available in Power BI and how to create them.
 Show how to format and customize visualizations to suit your
needs.

Creating Dashboards: Show how to create a dashboard using the

visualizations and filters created in the previous sections. Explain
how to publish and share the dashboard with others.

Power BI Service: Introduce Power BI Service and how to sign

up for an account. Show how to create a workspace, how to
upload and share reports, and how to collaborate with other
users.

Dr. Abdulzeid Yen 14/12/2023

Day 4: Application of Power BI to Health Data Anafo 3:00pm -5:00pm
Introduction to Health Data: Provide an overview of the
different types of health data, including electronic health records,
claims data, public health data, and clinical trial data. Explain the
importance of data visualization in health data analysis.
Connecting to Health Data Sources: Show how to connect to
different health data sources like Electronic Health Records
(EHR) systems, Claims data, and Public Health data sources.

Creating Health Visualizations: Explain the different types of

visualizations that are commonly used in health data analysis.
Demonstrate how to create visualizations that are specific to
health data, such as patient demographics, diagnoses, and
treatments.

Creating Interactive Reports and Dashboards: Show how to

create interactive reports and dashboards using health data.
Demonstrate how to use filters, slicers, and drill-down features to
explore health data in more detail.
Health Info.
Medical Records Data 5: Report writing on Power BI Dr. Abdulzeid Yen 15/12/2023
Biostatistician Anafo 3:00pm -5:00pm
Report Layout: Explain the importance of report layout and
design, including how to choose the appropriate visualizations
and how to arrange them on the report canvas.
Data Modelling: Show how to create and manage data models in
Power BI, including how to create relationships between tables
and how to create calculated fields using Data Analysis
Expression (DAX)

Custom Visualizations: Introduce custom visualizations and

explain how to import them into Power BI. Demonstrate how to
use custom visualizations to create unique and engaging reports.

Drill-through Reports: Show how to create drill-through reports

that allow users to navigate through different levels of data detail.

Exporting Reports: Explain how to export reports from Power

BI, including how to export reports to PDF, PowerPoint, and other
formats.

Collaboration and Sharing of Report: Demonstrate how to

collaborate and share reports with others, including how to
publish reports to Power BI Service and how to set up report
access and permissions.
 CATEGORY B

All Allied Health Topic: Occupational Health Hazards among healthcare Dr. Augustine 11/12/2023
Professionals providers and ancillary staff Eshollar Sagoe 12/12/2023
3-Days 13/12/2023
Day 1: Chemical and Physical Hazards prevention and control,
5:10pm -7:10pm
and Emergency procedures

Day 2: Biological and Ergonomics Hazards Prevention and

Control, and Emergency procedures

Day 3: Safety Practices at the Healthcare facilities

CATEGORY C

All Allied Health Day 1: Organizational Behaviour: leadership Dr. David Nana 14/12/2023
Professionals Adjei 15/12/2023
2-Days • Concepts of leadership
• Trait theory of leadership 5:10pm -7:10pm

✓ Katz framework
✓ Skogdills framework
✓ McCains framework
• Behavioural theory of leadership
✓ Kurt Lewin Leadership styles
✓ Blake and Mouton's Managerial Grid
✓ Great Man Theory
• Contingencies Theory of Leadership
✓ Fledlers theory
✓ Path-Goal Theory
✓ Vroom and Yetton theory
• Surviving under Kurt Lewin Leadership styles
Day 2: Techniques and Process for Managing Employees and
Team Performance
• Understanding the goals of performance management
using dialogue process
• Line managers role and responsibilities in performance
management
• Formulating and discussing specifics/SMART
objectives
• Applying structured approach in conducting
performance appraisal
• Correcting performance issues before they become a
problem
• Applying monitoring and follow-up techniques to ensure
commitment and goals
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