By: Dr. Michael Schick, GEC Ultrasound Director At Masaka Hospital in Uganda our Emergency Care Practitioners (ECPs) have acquired specialized emergency training in point-of-care ultrasound. In this specific diagnostic skill set, they are the most trained practitioners in the region. While…
"ECPs can be trained in 2 years, whereas it would take nearly a decade and a much greater cost to train physicians to do the same tasks. Patients dying in Uganda do not have time to wait." Over the past…
By: Lori Stolz, MD, GEC Ultrasound Director & Alexa Sabedra, MD, GEC VolunteerOn our first day in Masaka, while sitting in on the chest pain lecture being given to the ECP 1s, Deus (an ECP 2 who was working in…