TY - JOUR T1 - Education and Ebola: initiating the cascade of emergency healthcare training JF - Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps JO - J R Army Med Corps SP - 203 LP - 206 DO - 10.1136/jramc-2014-000394 VL - 162 IS - 3 AU - Will Eardley AU - D Bowley AU - P Hunt AU - J Round AU - N Tarmey AU - A Williams Y1 - 2016/06/01 UR - http://militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/162/3/203.abstract N2 - In response to the 2014 Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa, the UK deployed a Joint Inter-Agency Task Force to Sierra Leone. As well as constructing Ebola treatment units, the force supported a rapidly upscaled mass programme of training for host nation healthcare workers in basic knowledge of Ebola and personal protective equipment. A bespoke training course was developed in collaboration with the WHO and other partners over a period of 2 weeks, taught to 119 trainers the following week, and then cascaded to over 4000 Ebola workers over the following month. This article describes curriculum design, content delivery and assessment of this unique Training The Trainers course delivered in austere circumstances. Key learning points are highlighted and supplementary material is provided to inform future deployed clinical education initiatives. ER -