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This guide is a companion to the WHO publication Caring for women subjected to violence: a WHO curriculum for training health care providers, which consists of 17 training sessions on the health response to violence against women: 13 for health care providers and 4 for health managers. Both publications were produced to support countries' efforts to strengthen the competencies of health workers or health worker students to provide safe, quality, survivor-centred care for women subjected to violence. It also includes illustrative case studies from select countries that have integrated this content into their health worker curriculum.
This companion document is designed to provide pre-service health training programmes, such as in medical, nursing and midwifery schools, with the knowledge and resources to better prepare their students to care for women subjected to violence. Specifically, it provides guidance to help integrate and adapt sessions from the WHO curriculum into pre-service health worker education programmes, providing guidance on planning, developing and implementing this. Comprehensive, survivor-centred training can enhance the knowledge and improve the attitudes of health practitioners and health worker students and increase their readiness to care for survivors of violence.
Curriculum content on such care in pre-service health training programmes can ensure that future generations of the health workforce are equipped to provide empathic, high-quality care to those subjected to or affected by violence.
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