ImPACT: Achieving Equity in Anesthesia Education for East Africa

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Features| February 2021 ImPACT: Achieving Equity in Anesthesia Education for East Africa Bantayehu Sileshi, MD; Bantayehu Sileshi, MD Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Mahelet Tadesse, MD; Mahelet Tadesse, MD Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Haftom Berhane, MSc; Haftom Berhane, MSc Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar J. Matthew Kynes, MD J. Matthew Kynes, MD Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar ASA Monitor February 2021, Vol. 85, 20–21. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0000733840.53042.e3 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Cite Icon Cite Get Permissions Search Site Citation Bantayehu Sileshi, Mahelet Tadesse, Haftom Berhane, J. Matthew Kynes; ImPACT: Achieving Equity in Anesthesia Education for East Africa. ASA Monitor 2021; 85:20–21 doi: https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0000733840.53042.e3 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll PublicationsASA Monitor Search Advanced Search Topics: africa, eastern, equity, impact A major contributor to the surgical access and outcomes deficit experienced by vulnerable populations worldwide is the lack of trained anesthesia clinicians in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The World Federation of Societies of Anesthesiologists Global Anesthesia Workforce Survey revealed large gaps in both physician and non-physician anesthesia provider density, including 70 countries with a total anesthesia provider number <5 per 100,000 population (Anesth Analg 2017;125:981-90). Closing these gaps will require high-level investment, partnership, and innovation for education capacity in these settings. The Improving Perioperative Anesthesia Care and Training (ImPACT) Africa program is making strides to close this anesthesia education gap in East Africa. Founded in 2014 by a team at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) with a grant from the GE Foundation, the program has focused on four key areas of capacity-building: learning resource development, training educators, health care simulation, and data collection. ImPACT was initially launched... You do not currently have access to this content.