By Mark Bisanzo MD, DTM&H, FACEP | Co-founder, Global Emergency Care
Emergency Medicine is a vast field, encompassing a knowledge base of essentially every other discipline in medicine and a wide array of procedural skills; practitioners need to constantly stay up to date. This can be a daunting task and one that requires significant support to be achievable.
To support our graduates after they finish their two-year Emergency Care Practitioner training, we're launching the Continuing Education & Leadership (exCEL) Program.
The exCEL Program will provide graduates with continuing medical education opportunities to review higher level content, learn new skills, and receive additional mentorship after they graduate. Once back at their home hospitals, we're working to set up visits to work with administration on integrating emergency care into their facilities and regular phone calls to support ECPs in their new environment. ExCEL will also enable ECPs to attend regional retreats and large scale conferences, take emergency care training courses, and access online resources.
Thirteen years ago this month I completed my training in emergency medicine. I remember my first few shifts working independently—each decision was filled with self doubt and trepidation. More than ever before, I acutely felt the weight of holding a patient's health and well being in my hands. I remember realizing then that to truly master the practice of medicine in general, but emergency medicine in particular, requires lifelong learning.
As the continuing education infrastructure for emergency medicine in Africa is in its most nascent stages, we believe the exCEL Program will offer much needed to our ECPs to maintain skills and continually build new skills.
The effect of donations to this campaign are truly astronomical. The educational experiences we're providing the ECPs as they graduate and enter practice are building on the solid foundation we build over their two years of training. This helps them walk the path of lifelong learning and provide truly amazing care to those vulnerable patients they care for every day.
We're so grateful to have you as a part of the GEC team.
Thank you!
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