● Presentation style: Demonstrations are extremely helpful.
● Participant assessment: Set aside specific times for participant feedback to assess how
well participants are learning and how to improve; conduct evaluation at the conclusion
of the workshop.
● Participant follow-up: Ensure that contact information is provided for all participants.
● Participant follow-up: Ensure that photographs taken at the workshop are provided for
all participants.
● Faculty follow-up: Prepare a handbook of standard workshop presentation materials for
participants and others to use.
● Clarify order of presentation of the workshop earlier for faculty convenience.
● Recognize how learning can diminish with long workshop days.
● Ensure that participants have time to network with the speakers and each other.
● Ensure that presentation scheduling leaves time for participants to ask questions and
share their experiences.
● ACCE and WHO should consider development of a communications/publications/document retrieval service for African health technology managers of clinical engineering
with information from 1980 to the present.
● Recognize that participants appreciated and benefited from the presentations, and from
the wealth of experience of the faculty. “We have been given a vision of how we can
find a way to our solutions,” one participant said.
● Include more discussions of participants’ experiences, not only faculty experiences, to
add balance.
● Participating countries’ Ministries of Health (MOH) should receive objectives prior to
the workshop to aid in the selection of the most appropriate participants.
● The WHO Essential Health Technology Package (EHTP) review should be expanded.
● Consider using a professional facilitator in workshop to widen participant discussion;
continue to bring in an outside management expert/faculty member.
● Provide a participant list with key job responsibilities and local objectives related to the
workshop.