2017
DOI: 10.1017/s0022215117000330
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Otolaryngology outreach to Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital: a medical and educational partnership

Abstract: This article describes the details of this partnership in otological surgery and hearing health, with an emphasis on creating in-country surgical simulation, training on newly acquired medical equipment and planning regarding the formulation of objectified metrics to gauge progress going forward.

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“…However, parents/guardians of these children gave the information on the onset of the condition. The late diagnostic of HI in Ghanaian children is partly tied to the limited number of hearing assessment facilities (Waller et al, 2017). In addition, the majority of the HI students were living in remote rural settlements often with unmemorable roads and hence the difficulty of having access to quality health care.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, parents/guardians of these children gave the information on the onset of the condition. The late diagnostic of HI in Ghanaian children is partly tied to the limited number of hearing assessment facilities (Waller et al, 2017). In addition, the majority of the HI students were living in remote rural settlements often with unmemorable roads and hence the difficulty of having access to quality health care.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The advantages are that it is easier in this model to provide a comprehensive range of specialist care, including surgery, as only one centre is used. This can also help to keep costs low, to provide continuity in training 73 and to implement processes for continual improvement.…”
Section: Central Delivery Of Care Modelmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The program is now self-sustaining and, since 1995, has received support from the Ghanaian Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education, and the Ghana Health Service (Anderson et al, 2007;Clinton et al, 2010). Since 1993, robust programs in emergency medicine (Martel et al, 2014;Mould-Millman et al, 2015;Osei-Ampofo et al, 2013Oteng and Donkor, 2014;Oteng et al, 2020), family medicine (Essuman et al, 2019;Toma et al, 2020) otolaryngology (Waller et al, 2017), ophthalmology (Global REACH, 2019), psychiatry (Natala, et al, 2018), and other medical disciplines (Essuman, et al, 2019) have evolved at these same teaching hospitals, all with the involvement of University of Michigan Medical School faculty. Medical student exchanges going in both directions remain established, as well as exchanges of residents (medical school graduates who are pursing training as specialists in areas such as surgery, internal medicine, or obstetrics/ gynecology, called "postgraduate trainees" or "postgraduates" for short in Ghana, and "resident, " "house officer, " or "graduate medical education (GME) trainee" in the United States; "intern" is no longer formally accepted for those in their first year of residency, although widely used) (Abedini et al, 2014(Abedini et al, , 2015Danso-Bamfo et al, 2017;Lawrence et al, 2020).…”
Section: Introduction and The "End Of The Story"mentioning
confidence: 99%