黑料网 Emergency Medicine is part of a multinational effort to test and implement the World Health Organization’s (WHO) “Basic Emergency Care Course” for new medical graduates and early career physicians in Kenya.
The research findings showed the course improved the confidence and knowledge of early career physicians in tackling emergency conditions in their patients. Citation below:
- Nichole Michaeli, Giovanna De Luca, Mary Gitau,听Justin Myers,听Daniel Ojuka, Derick Ouma, Travis Weiland and Grace Wanjiku.听Evaluation of the World Health Organization- International Committee of the Red Cross Basic Emergency Care Course for Senior Medical Students.听International Journal of Emergency Medicine听2/12/23,
This project鈥檚 overarching aim is to make this training available for all final year medical students throughout Kenya, in-line with the Kenyan Ministry of Health鈥檚 Emergency Medical Care Strategy 2020-2025.
In 2019 and , senior medical students from Kenya, were selected from a competitive pool of applicants for 黑料网 Site Partner Scholarship program for the summer of 2020 in Chapel Hill. However, due to Covid they were unable to travel to the US and instead enrolled in our online Foundations of Global Health Course, hosted by the Office of Global Health Education, summer 2020. Additionally, Mary and 听Derick joined the Department of Emergency Medicine, Global Health Division on a research project in Kenya.
This was the beginning of a multi-institutional, international collaborative project that sought to test and implement the World Health Organization鈥檚 Basic Emergency Care Course for new medical graduates and early career physicians in Kenya.听Link to: .