Critical Care Training in East Africa

In March of 2019, ten PRISMA/USC Emergency Medicine physicians will embark on a journey to Uganda to conduct our 3rd Annual Acute Care Training at the OneWorld Health Hospital in Masindi. The first week will be spent working in mobile outreach clinics providing direct care to the local population, but the second half of the trip will be spent teaching a multidisciplinary group of local providers from all over the region. This year we will be providing hands on education focusing on cardiac emergencies including lectures, simulation scenarios, and point of care ultrasound teaching.

In the fall of 2019, the team will be going to Mbeya, Tanzania to provide the same course to physicians, nurses, and advanced care providers. In both of these locations, resources for critical care resuscitation are limited, however, with appropriate training even the most basic of resources can be used to provide life saving care.

Our goal, is to provide sustainable educational activities that can be used in the local healthcare sites to elevate the level of care provided. We hope that through this course we can equip attendees with the knowledge and resources necessary to return to their communities and teach other local providers who are unable to attend the training.

Who we are: 

Attending and resident physicians from PH Emergency Medicine Program who have simultaneously recognized this need and partnered together for these training opportunities.

The impact:  

Empowering and training medical providers by teaching a multidisciplinary course on a regional level will allow us to have a lasting impact in two of the poorest countries in the world.

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Thanks for your support!

We want to take a moment to thank anyone who has contributed their time, efforts and/or finances to helping us in this pursuit. As with many things in life, these weeks of training in March and October and will be the culmination of months of behind-the-scenes contributions from people like you.