Clinical fellowship in Paediatric Anaesthesia in Kenya to train anaesthesiologists in Kenya and other Eastern African countries.
Job Description:
This is a 12 month programme that will offer fellows clinical experiences in general paediatric and subspecialty paediatric anaesthesia, pain management, critical care and a variety of educational electives including pharmacology-related clinical research, medical education and clinical teaching and patient simulation.
Initially teachers will come from Europe, America, Australia, New-Zealand and Canada and other places as approved by the world federation of societies of anaesthetists. We shall have a trainer of trainers approach so we can have enough faculties not to import in a period of about 3 years.
We shall have 4 students per year, 3 from Kenya and 1 from one of the neighbouring countries. Project Goal: To improve peri-operative care of children undergoing anaesthesia and subsequently clinical outcomes in Kenya and the larger East and Central Africa through a paediatric anaesthesia fellowship program.
Project Objectives
• To train anaesthesiologists in Kenya and other Eastern African countries in relevant knowledge and skills for delivery of safe perianaesthesia care for children in Africa
• To train Paediatric anaesthesiologists per excellence who will in turn be able to train other anaesthesia practitioners on the delivery of safe perianaesthesia care for children in Africa
• To set up comprehensive paediatric anaesthesia excellence centres in five countries in Africa, including Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi. The first of these will be in Kenya
• To develop mechanisms for professional mentorship for trained paediatric anaesthesiologists
• To train fellows in routine clinical and surveillance data collection and its application to improve service delivery.
• To develop mechanisms that will ascertain sustainability of the training program and provision of services beyond the life of this project.
• To disperse the training to all cadres of anaesthetists offering care of patients in the whole country, region.
Specific Objectives for Participating Fellows:
- To develop competence in providing peri-operative anaesthetic care for neonates, infants, children and adolescents.
- To develop leadership, teaching and research roles in anaesthesia, peri-operative care and pain management in children
- To develop an in-depth understanding of paediatric day-of-admission and day surgery practices.
- To develop an understanding of the principles of experimental design, clinical research and statistical analysis.
Application Closing Date: by the end of November 2010
More info at:
www.anaesthesiakenya.co.ke/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=121&Itemid=121
Job Description:
This is a 12 month programme that will offer fellows clinical experiences in general paediatric and subspecialty paediatric anaesthesia, pain management, critical care and a variety of educational electives including pharmacology-related clinical research, medical education and clinical teaching and patient simulation.
Initially teachers will come from Europe, America, Australia, New-Zealand and Canada and other places as approved by the world federation of societies of anaesthetists. We shall have a trainer of trainers approach so we can have enough faculties not to import in a period of about 3 years.
We shall have 4 students per year, 3 from Kenya and 1 from one of the neighbouring countries. Project Goal: To improve peri-operative care of children undergoing anaesthesia and subsequently clinical outcomes in Kenya and the larger East and Central Africa through a paediatric anaesthesia fellowship program.
Project Objectives
• To train anaesthesiologists in Kenya and other Eastern African countries in relevant knowledge and skills for delivery of safe perianaesthesia care for children in Africa
• To train Paediatric anaesthesiologists per excellence who will in turn be able to train other anaesthesia practitioners on the delivery of safe perianaesthesia care for children in Africa
• To set up comprehensive paediatric anaesthesia excellence centres in five countries in Africa, including Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi. The first of these will be in Kenya
• To develop mechanisms for professional mentorship for trained paediatric anaesthesiologists
• To train fellows in routine clinical and surveillance data collection and its application to improve service delivery.
• To develop mechanisms that will ascertain sustainability of the training program and provision of services beyond the life of this project.
• To disperse the training to all cadres of anaesthetists offering care of patients in the whole country, region.
Specific Objectives for Participating Fellows:
- To develop competence in providing peri-operative anaesthetic care for neonates, infants, children and adolescents.
- To develop leadership, teaching and research roles in anaesthesia, peri-operative care and pain management in children
- To develop an in-depth understanding of paediatric day-of-admission and day surgery practices.
- To develop an understanding of the principles of experimental design, clinical research and statistical analysis.
Application Closing Date: by the end of November 2010
More info at:
www.anaesthesiakenya.co.ke/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=121&Itemid=121
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