This is a critical care and emergency medicine conference committed to developing Critical Care and Emergency Medicine Infrastructure in both Ethiopia and Tanzania. This is the inaugural year we will be teaching in Ethiopia and the forth year building on prior work in Tanzania.
The focus on the conference is to continue to build on the growing infrastructure of Emergency and Critical Care medicine in both countries.
Through a combination of didactics and hands-on workshops, the course will focus on topics identified from colleagues in both countries. The goal is to continue to train the leaders in Emergency and Critical Care Medicine and to provide the background for local stakeholders to lead similar courses in the future.
In fact, the course in Tanzania this year will be jointly taught with leadership from past participants.
We have truly seen the benefits of the growing collaboration over the years in Tanzania and anticipate similar results in Ethiopia.
This is meant to genuinely build on the early stages of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine in both Ethiopia as well as Tanzania. Participants will be both those with emergency and critical experience as well as generalists with less specialized training and background. Course work will be completed online prior to the conference and lectures and hands on stations will consist of time for discussion as well as small group learning to build on essential skills.
Colleagues in Addis Ababa as well as Dar Es Salaam are in the process of identifying participants that span from generalists to those more experience in critical care and emergency medicine. Through small group sessions and short lectures, we hope to provide both basic skills as well as provide the tools so participants will teach the course independently moving forward.
Our goal is to lay the framework for continued collaboration. We have been quite successful in building a consistent collaboration through work in Dar Es Salaam and anticipate the same in Addis Ababa. Our goal is to turn the course over to physicians in each country.
We have seen the growth in Tanzania of emergency and critical care medicine over the past 3 years of involvement. We have had ongoing collaboration throughout the year and Tanzanian colleagues have held and led similar courses over the year.
Our goal is to develop a similar presence in Addis Ababa, in earlier stages of emergency and critical care medicine development. This is an incredible opportunity to expand into another country that has reached out for this course work after hearing about our work in Tanzania.
While this course is a one-week experience between lectures and workshops, the expected impact and goal is to provide the skills to far out live our course.
Moving forward, there will be ongoing monthly webinars, case conferences and further teaching partnership in both countries.
The goal and impact is expected to go far beyond our trip. As we have done in Tanzania, we are confident that we will implement ongoing case conferences and webinars in Addis Ababa that continue after the conference.
I cannot emphasize how much I would appreciate the support of the Dox Foundation to make this trip possible for me.
I truly appreciate the support of the Doximity Foundation that enabled me to participate in this emergency and critical care course in both Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.
In it’s forth year, this course continues to impressive me as it represents a genuine collaboration between colleagues in both countries with a group based in the United States. Based on feedback from prior participants, the focus was on neuro critical care as well as ventilator management. During a trip split between the two cities, we worked with over 200 hundred participants from both countries that are increasing their critical care and emergency knowledge and skills as both fields continue to develop in both Ethiopia and Tanzania.
I look forward to continued partnership formed through multiple years of work and cannot express enough gratitude to the Doximity Foundation for supporting this work.
