FETP

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The Field Epidemiology Training Program or FETP is a two-year training program designed to develop epidemiological expertise among health professionals in the Philippines. The program was established in 1987 as a five-year grant of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) with the Department of Health, in collaboration with the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC). In 2000 the Philippines FETP was institutionalized into the National Epidemiology Center (NEC) of the Department of Health.

The program is an applied public health training program modeled after the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS). It is a full-time, in-service training where trainees or fellows are expected to spend 25 percent of their time in the classroom and 75 percent in the field.

FETPs and similar other programs have been established in several other countries around the world through the CDCs Division of Global Public Health Capacity Development (formerly the Division of Epidemiology and Surveillance Capacity Development DESCD). As of March 2007, there are 34 countries that have this program. Canada, Thailand, Indonesia, Mexico, Taiwan, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Columbia, Italy, Egypt, Zimbabwe, Spain, Uganda, European Union, Hungary, Cote r'lvoure, Germany, Ghana, Vietnam, Japan, Jordan, Brazil, Central America, Argentina, China, India, South Korea, Malaysia, Central Asia, France, Kenya, Pakistan and South Africa.

FETP trainees/fellows should have core competencies on the following knowledge domains: epidemiology, biostatistics, communications, information technology, leadership and management. Trainees are subjected to doing a lot of field work and "learn by doing". They conduct outbreak investigations and field surveys, perform disease control and prevention measures and establish surveillance systems. FETPs get the opportunity to learn how to deal with decision- and policy-makers when they report their findings and recommendations to those concerned after each epidemiologic investigation.

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