Development and Implementation of Short Courses to Support the Establishment of a Prehospital System in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons Learned from Tanzania

Table 1

Summary of the findings from targeted survey.

Participants (N = 100)	n	%
Government ambulance staff	25	25
Private ambulance staff	10	10
Secondary school students	30	30
Community members	30	30
MoHCDGEC policymakers	5	5
Working or worked on ambulance (N = 100)	35	35
EMS training course necessity (n = 100)	67	95.7
Proposed duration of the course	N = 57	%
6 weeks	14	24.6
3 months	11	19.2
6 months	2	3.5
1 year	15	26.3
3 years	9	15.8
Unknown	6	10.5
Potential course participants	n/N	%
Willingness to participate in the course	54/65	83.1
Proposed course model: full time	21/55	38.2
Proposed course model: part time	34/55	61.8
Modality of course payment: self	18/54	33.3
Modality of course payment: government	11/54	20.4
Modality of course payment: others	25/54	46.3
Policymakers
Support formalized training programme	5/5	100