Continuing education for healthcare workers traditionally consists of courses and workshops run by formal trainers at large central hospitals. These teaching courses are expensive to attend, often far away from the healthcare workers’ families and places of work, and the content frequently fails to address the real healthcare requirements of the poor, rural communities who face the biggest healthcare challenges.

To help solve these many problems, a self-help decentralised learning method has been developed which addresses the needs of professional healthcare workers, especially those in poor, rural communities. Healthcare professionals take control of their own learning, working in groups in their own place of work, and learning at their own pace.