A successful hybrid emergency medicine postgraduate partnership in Southern Africa

African Journal of Emergency Medicine

卷:10

Heike Geduld¹  Japhter Masunge²  Megan Cox³ 

[1] Corresponding authors.;

[2] University of Botswana, Faculty of Medicine, Botswana;

[3] University of Sydney, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Australia;

关键词: Botswana;    Emergency Medicine;    Education;    South Africa;    Medical education;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Emergency Medicine (EM) development is established worldwide and fast developing in Sub-Saharan Africa. Medical specialty development requires multiple human resources and logistics which are frequently not available in LMICs. This article describes an innovative hybrid EM specialization program in Botswana that involved partnership with a neighbouring country in Sub-Saharan Africa. Many initial problems challenged its development, but significant local and regional support led to success. Botswana graduated its first three EM specialists in 2018 and now has an ongoing and sustainable EM program. This regional partnership resulted in numerous academic, research and clinical EM developments for Botswana and SA. UB-UCT EM training Partnership Model is a novel and sustainable cross- African collaboration with significant benefits for both health systems as well as for the individual trainees. This hybrid arrangement should be considered by other LMICs looking for EM specialty training and development.

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