The Board of GECC is saddened by the recent attacks in Kampala Uganda during Sunday’s World Cup game. We do want to reassure our volunteers and donors that our ENP colleagues and other friends at Nyakibale Hospital were not personally…
Three of GECC’s board members are traveling to Haiti this month to do earthquake relief! Dr Stacey Chamberlain will be working in Port au Prince with International Medical Corp (IMC), and Drs Heather Hammerstedt and Sara Nelson will be working…
This is our first post in a couple of years, so I’d like to reintroduce this blog and let you know what to expect in it. The majority of the content here will be written by Ryan Brandt, GECC’s Program…
We honored to have the Annals of Emergency Medicine publish one of our papers. In resource-limited settings, nurse-administered ketamine sedation appears to be safe and effective. A brief procedural sedation training program, coupled with a comprehensive training program in emergency care, can…
GECC’s third class of Emergency Care Practitioners has begun! In a collaborative effort between GECC, the current ECPs, and Nyakibale administration, we have a fantastic new class of Six RNs and ENs who will be the next wave of ECPs to change…
GECC has formed a collaborative partnership with Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST), a regional medical training university in Mbarara Uganda. MUST administrators and physicians are now working closely with GECC to refine and adapt the Emergency Care Curriculum to meet…
From June 1-14, 2011, GECC is hosting an online art auction to benefit Emergency Care Services in Uganda. Featured are oil and acrylic paintings of Florence, Italiy and the Northwestern, US, but Bruno Segatta, as well as wine lots from…
GECC is looking for several US-based advisors with skills outside of medicine. If you have experience in FINANCIAL OPERATIONS, MARKETING, or TAXES / ACCOUNTING, and want to donate your time and expertise to GECC, please email contact@globalemergencycare.org.
The ENPs continue to run the Emergency Department well, at this point without physician supervision for the summer. In other good news, we have 25 applications for selection for the second ENP training program, which will start Sept 1, 2010!…
On April 1, 2010, NPR’s WorldView radio program interviewed Dr Stacey Chamberlain in detail about GECC’s Uganda “Emergency Nurse Practitioner Training Program”. She did a fantastic job of explaining our vision, and we are really excited about the opportunity to…