Category: Academic Courses

ICanCaRe Academy’s motto empower, enhance, and earn introduced three courses for capacity building for Tobacco Cessation. The courses accredited by Gujarat University help set up or scale up tobacco cessation practices

ICanCaRe – KIET Tobacco Marshal Training Program

TRAINING OF TOBACCO MARSHAL – 12th November 2022

For the first time in India, an Institute initiated the TOBACCO MARSHAL program on the campus. Selected faculties and students who are Wardens or in charge of hostels and departments and members of the Ek Prays club at KIET were empowered as TOBACCO MARSHALs.

The vision of Director Dr. A.Garg was ably promoted by Prof. Dr. Pravesh Singh and the much-needed empowered tobacco MARSHAL are being created to make the future of student secure and respectable. The program is supported by Dr. Anil Ahlawat, Dean Academy, and Dr. Satish Kumar, Dean SW.

NEW TOBACCO MARSHAL At KIET

Prof. Dr. Pravesh Singh – The first TOBACCO MARSHAL of India initiated the activities at KIET by first establishing the Club – Ek Prayas at the campus. With that multiple activities were done on campus. The need for empowering the club members was felt. Thus, with ICanCaRe Academy the TOBACCO MARSHAL training was done.

30 candidates took training.

Dr. Pawan Gupta M.Ch., Dr. Neeta Kumar, Mrs. Sonal Bhatia, and Mrs. Minaxi Agrawal were represented by ICanCaRe to share knowledge and experience.

Mrs. Sonal Bhatia, the leader of Tobacco MARSHAL, feels that women are the worst sufferers due to tobacco use in society. She successfully made 1000 women tobacco MARSHALs in 5 months, of which 550 girls from villages were trained as MINI Tobacco MARSHALs.

Mrs. Sonal Bhatia – Need of Tobacco MARSHAL in society

Academic Director Dr. Ahlawat said, “Thank you for the insightful workshop. Our students and staff are all excited to start tobacco control on the campus and hopefully we would make a definite impact on the future of our students”.

4 hours of intensive discussion covered the 8R aspects of Tobacco and empowered each of the participants as TOBACCO MARSHALs.

The most important focus of the session was how to handle a person who is taking tobacco- the conversation that needs to follow with the person engages and guides them towards making him tobacco-free.

Emphasis was also on protecting self and family, especially daughters so that they do not end up with a tobacco user in life getting tormented for their entire life.

Tobacco MARSHALS – they have a major role as influencers to: are essential for tobacco control

§ SAVE youth initiation (BE SMART DO NOT START)

§ Encourage cessation (WIN OVER TOBACCO IS EASY)

§ Increase negative attitudes toward tobacco use (BE CAREFUL AND FEARFUL)

§ Chota Dhana – Identify early lesions of the Oral Cavity

§ Induct more people to support the cause (CAPACITY BUILDING)

§ Increase support for policy change (CREATE TOBACCO-FREE ZONES)

Tobacco MARSHAL is a prestige and a recognition of personal social responsibility against the most dreaded disease in the WORLD.

With the presence of TOBACCO MARSHAL on the campus, it is going to be a major ripple effect at campus and outside the campus.

Dr. Neeta Kumar, Senior Scientist ICMR did some much needed relaxation exercises and practical intervention. Suggested some surveys that can be done.

Minaxi Agrawal distributed the caps and Badges and motivated the participants as TOBACCO MARSHALs.

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ICanCaRe Academy

Certified Tobacco Specialist Batch of August 2022

The August – September 2022 batch of Certified Tobacco Cessation Specialists is a very special batch. Although a small batch, it consists of doctors from various disciplines- Pulmonologist, ENT and Head neck Onco-surgeon, Pedodontics, Oral medicine and Radiologist, and dental surgeons. Each one as much enthusiastic to learn more and adopt tobacco cessation in their practice.

We welcome each one of them into the ICanCaRe family as they join the #SAVEtheyouth campaign as Certified Tobacco Cessation Specialists.

Certified Tobacco Cessation Specialists are the most important link for #SAVEtheyouth Campaign as they are at the pinnacle and trained extensively for intervention to successfully help quit tobacco for their patients.

CTCS course is accredited by Gujarat University and the only such course in India giving practical experience, ICanCaRe APP for digitalized protocol intervention. To know more go to http://www.icancare.in/academy/ctcs It is an 8-week course with dedicated 2.5 hours each week, with a lot of reading material, etc.

What some of the participants have to say:

“This training course is very precise, practical, two-way communication is very helpful for solving our problem, very informative, practice-oriented program.” – Dr. Rajkumari Khatri, Indore, ENT and Head, and Neck Surgeon

“Actively involving each student in discussion and learning process, discipline and dedication” – Dr. Mallikarjun, Pulmonologist, HCG – Bengaluru

“Very interactive, engaging, and highly informative. Definitely will start practice tobacco cessation along with my ongoing clinical practice.” – Dr. Visuja Chaudhary, Pedodontics, Noida

Fo Details about the course –

Contact – 011-43077695

http://www.icancare.in/academy/ctcs

info@icancare.in

Certified Tobacco Cessation Specialists to Make Quitting Simpler and Easier

1st Batch of CTCS Participants and Faculty

ICanCaRe organized its 1st Batch on Certificate Course for Certified Tobacco Cessation Specialist endorsed by Gujarat University on 14-15th June 2019 at Max Super Speciality Hospital, Vaishali. It was tremendously sensational and an interactive sessions where experts from various specializations had participated to learn the latest techniques of cessation like Motivational Interviewing(MI), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Change Talk, Handling challenging responses from patients, Group Counselling, Pharmacotherapy, Relapse Prevention, Treatment Planning, Documentation, Evaluation, Community Program and Regulations for Tobacco Control in India.

Dr.S.K.Arora Delivering his Lecture
Participants Taking Assessment

Demonstration for e-cessation app and instruments required for evidence based cessation was also given to help the specialists perform a protocol based cessation with the patients to enhance the effectiveness of the patients. MI is specially designed to bring the patients from pre-contemplation to contemplation state by helping them explore their own thoughts and barriers to quitting.

Mr. Rishabh Agrawal on Role of Technology for Tobacco Cessation

There were many case discussions and role plays for different topics which led the participants to imbibe the concepts properly with the experts. Eminent speakers like Dr. Pawan Gupta, Director of Surgical Oncology at Max Hospital; Dr. S.K.Arora, Additional Director General of Health Services of Delhi Government; Dr. Rakesh Rawal, Professor and Coordinator of the course from Gujarat University and Lawyer Rabindra Mishra conducted sessions as faculty and imparted abundant knowledge to help the participants preach and practice cessation with their patients daily.

Role Plays – Played by Participants

Dr Rakesh Rawal, critically evaluated the process of training,  assessment and certification process as per the university mandate and congratulated the pioneer batch to have joined this noble preparation to save millions of Indians from tobacco, the killing agent.

Dr Rakesh Rawal, Gujarat University

Dr Shridhar Dwivedi, an eminent and senior cardiologist enlightened the participants on the history of tobacco and its severe health hazards and impact on day to day life during his lecture.

Dr Shridhar Dwivedi Delivering his lecture
Dr. Pawan Delivering his Lecture

Dr Gagan Saini, Associate Director, Radiation Oncology, Head and Neck , Max Hospital Vaishali explained the participants and equipped them with the knowledge on early detection of oral cancer lesions. During his lecture he provided the technique for oral cavity examination, neck examination for clinically examination and identification of affected areas due to tobacco use.

Dr Gagan Saini lecture on Oral Screening
Dr. Pawan Gupta Discussing Case with Participants
Our Enthusiastic Participants

None the less, the participants were very passionate and enthusiastic. Their rigor and passion to learn cessation was unmatched. They listened to all the speakers with sheer concentration and very vigilant in asking pertinent questions to clarify their doubts besides, vigourosly participating in all role plays.

The course participants included Dr Ravi Ahuja, Council Member IDA; Dr Umesh Sharma, National Secretary CDH; Dr Alok Narang, Surgical Oncologist, Max Super Speciality Hospital, Vaishali; Dr. Antosh Kumar,  Senior MO, NTPC Vindhyanagar; Dr Avnica Agrawal, Dr. Suchitra Prasad and Dr. Surabhi Sharma.

Ms Vandana Tomar critically evaluated the course process and was very appreciative of ICanCaRe’s effort to build a course with such lucid language that can be understood, learned and practiced by any healthcare professional.

The session was conducted in a span of two days. It was followed by assessment, memento distribution and a gala dinner to congratulate all participants and faculty to kick start a revolution of introducing preventive healthcare into the industry for tobacco.

Gala Dinner

With this first batch, ICanCaRe is now a team of 10 passionate, energetic and extremely talented specialists who can beat the habit of tobacco in their patients. Let’s begin the revolution and kick tobacco’s butt!

For all those who want to quit smoking or chewing, the right help is now fully available to get over your addiction of tobacco. Don’t fail self-trying again and again. Become a champion with our experts. Call ICanCaRe today on 7838783268 or visit www.icancare.in for more details!