This will be my third trip to Rwanda to support the emergency medicine residency at CHUK in Kigali. I work 5-6 days a week in the emergency department doing hands-on clinical teaching with the residents, including ultrasound teaching. I also help with weekly conference lectures. There are only three attendings for the whole department, so the residents do not always get enough teaching time. By being there, I increase their educational time and lighten the load for the Rwandan attendings.
CHUK is a public teaching hospital in Kigali, Rwanda. The hospital serves Rwandan patients who live locally as well as complex patients transferred in from district hospitals across the country. They see a large volume of trauma patients, burn patients, and patients with critical medical illness.
I know the residents well and have a good relationship with them. I will be doing bedside education with all residents who are on service, with a focus on building the skills of the new interns. This residency produces generation after generation of emergency medicine specialists who go on to deliver high-quality emergency care across the country.
I worked with over 20 emergency medicine residents at CHUK in Rwanda, including bedside teaching and conference lectures. I also conducted a two day ultrasound workshop for first-year residents.
