title: Teaching of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness strategy in undergraduate nursing programs.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe and analyze the teaching of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy on Brazilian undergraduate nursing programs.
  
  
  METHODS
  Integrating an international multicentric study, a cross-sectional online survey was conducted between May and October 2010 with 571 undergraduate nursing programs in Brazil
  
  
  RESULTS
  Responses were received from 142 programs, 75% private and 25% public. 64% of them included the IMCI strategy in the theoretical content, and 50% of the programs included IMCI as part of the students' practical experience. The locations most used for practical teaching were primary health care units. The 'treatment' module was taught by the fewest number of programs, and few programs had access to the IMCI instructional manuals. All programs used exams for evaluation, and private institutions were more likely to include class participation as part of the evaluation. Teaching staff in public institutions were more likely to have received training in teaching IMCI.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In spite of the relevance of the IMCI strategy in care of the child, its content is not addressed in all undergraduate programs in Brazil, and many programs do not have access to the IMCI teaching manuals and have not provide training in IMCI to their teaching staff.
authors.affiliation: Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Enfermagem, São Paulo, SP, Brasil. efujimor@usp.br
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fujimori
authors.forename: Cinthia Hiroko
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Higuchi
authors.forename: Emília Gallindo
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: Cursino
authors.forename: Maria De La Ó Ramallo
authors.initials: Mde L
authors.lastname: Veríssimo
authors.forename: Ana Luiza Vilela
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Borges
authors.forename: Débora Falleiros
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: de Mello
authors.forename: Lucila Castanheira
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Nascimento
authors.forename: Verónica
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Behn
authors.forename: Lynda Law
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Wilson
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D002648:Child; D002669:Child Welfare; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated; D004506:Education, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D010371:Pediatric Nursing / Q000193:education*