AIC Kijabe Hospital, located in Kijabe, Kenya, one hour outside Nairobi, is a tertiary-care facility with training programs in nursing, anesthesia, surgery (general, pediatrics, and pediatric neurosurgery), family medicine, and other areas of health care. The goals of this international rotation are:
- gain a perspective on global surgery as a vital aspect of public health and its role in attaining the Millennium Development Goals, particularly goals 3, 4, and 5
- acquire experiential knowledge about the provision of surgical care in a low-income environment and demonstrate a logical and appropriate clinical approach to the care of patients, utilizing local resources
- recognize that lessons learned during the 4-week rotation can be integrated into practice when the resident returns to the US
- specific objectives that are competency-based.
This opportunity is limited to surgery residents only.
| Rondi Kauffmann [Email] Division of Surgical Oncology, Kijabe Liaison for Surgery Margaret Tarpley [Email] Senior Associate in Surgery | |
| Location | Kijabe, Kenya |
| Contacts | Other faculty: Erik Hansen James O'Neill Naji Abumrad Kyla Terhune Emily Towns Mark Newton Quentin Eichbaum Robert Boyce |
| Program Type | Training or Education |
| Funding Type | N/A |
| Region | Africa |
| Global Health Topics | Education, Emergency Medicine, Ethics, Health Systems, Surgery and Anesthesiology |
| Eligibility | Post-doctoral students, residents, or trainees; Faculty members |
| Program Length | Less than 1 month |
| VU Affiliation | The program is affiliated with Vanderbilt. |
| Language(s) | The program does not have a language requirement. |