Abstract

Medical simulation is an integral tool for training medical students and physicians in all specialties, including emergency medicine. We describe a model program for advanced trauma training utilizing the medical simulation and skills center in Rwanda, one of the first in Africa for training health care professionals.

Highlights

  • Pan African Medical Journal – ISSN: 1937- 8688 Published in partnership with the African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET)

  • Faculty from the Rwandan Post Graduate Degree (PGD) Course in Emergency and Critical Care Medicine and the Masters of Medicine in Emergency Medicine, both based at the University Teaching Hospital of Kigali (CHUK), have collaborated with providers from two US-based Medical Schools and Emergency Department to help improve Emergency medicine (EM) in Rwanda

  • The course was conducted at the Centre for Simulation and Training at CHUK, Rwanda's new and only facility for medical simulation in conjunction with CHUK faculty from the surgery and EM deparments [8]

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Introduction

Pan African Medical Journal – ISSN: 1937- 8688 (www.panafrican-med-journal.com) Published in partnership with the African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET). (www.afenet.net). The Human Resources for Health (HRH) and the Rwanda Ministry of Health have made acute EM and trauma training a priority to improve patient care and public health outcomes [6]. Faculty from the Rwandan Post Graduate Degree (PGD) Course in Emergency and Critical Care Medicine and the Masters of Medicine in Emergency Medicine, both based at the University Teaching Hospital of Kigali (CHUK), have collaborated with providers from two US-based Medical Schools and Emergency Department to help improve EM in Rwanda.

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