By Tom Neill | Operations Director
I am excited to announce the completion of the first year of the Emergency Care Practitioner Diploma program at Masaka Hospital. The eight ECP students have worked hard to vastly improved their clinical skills and knowledge over the course of the year. The four ECP Trainers – Teddy, Elizabeth, Alfunsi, and JB – have done an excellent job preparing and giving lectures, as well as teaching the ECP students clinically in the emergency department. We look forward to the start of the second year on August 18, 2018. In addition, we are currently recruiting ten new ECP Diploma students for the second class that will begin their training in mid-August as well.
In addition, GEC has partnered with Mbarara University to start the first-ever Master of Medicine (MMed) in Emergency Medicine program (similar to a US residency program). Five physicians have completed their first year of the three-year, specialist, emergency medicine training program. They are a dynamic group that upon graduation will work directly with the qualified ECPs to develop emergency medicine across Uganda.
In other news, Alex Wang, GEC’s 2017-18 Global Health Fellow, wrote an excellent reflection piece on his year working in Masaka over the first year of the ECP Diploma program. Read more here.
Lastly, we recently released our 2017 Annual Report. The report highlights GEC’s successes in 2017, and provides some reflections on our last ten years of work in Uganda. Read it here.
Thank you for your continued support!
Warm regards,
Tom Neill
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