By Tom Neill | Executive Director
Hello friends!
A new academic year is upon us and that means the start of training for more Emergency Care Practitioners and Emergency Medicine physicians and we couldn't be more excited.
In August, eight second year Emergency Care Practitioner Diploma students began their second year of training. They are excited to be back working in the Emergency Department and learning new skills from the trainers. Additionally, they are acting as mentors this year to the new first year ECP Diploma students. That's right there is a new class of six ECP Diploma students that have begun their training at Masaka Hospital as well. The GEC team is working hard to ensure the curriculum is in place and prepared for both classes of ECP Diploma students.
Furthermore, at Mbarara University the Master of Medicine in Emergency Medicine (MMed) trainees have started their second of three years of training. Upon completion of their program, they will graduate as the first specialist Emergeny Medicine Physicians trained completely in Uganda. Concurrently, Makerere University in Kampala started another MMed program this month to increase emergency physician capacity in Uganda.
The graduates from both the Diploma program and the MMed program will form the cornerstone of the nascent Emergency Medicine community in Uganda. GEC is proud to continue to support the development of these two programs and look forward to continue to support emergency medicine development in Uganda.
Additionally, the GEC team met in Seattle in September for our 2018 Annnual Meeting. It was a major success in strategy planning for the future of the organization.
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