'd like to congratulate Dr. Joseph Kalanzi, a long-time GECC partner, on his newly published research in the Annals of Emergency Medicine. The research, entitled, Getting It Right the First Time: Defining Regionally Relevant Training Curricula and Provider Core Competencies for…
I am excited to announce a new partnership between GECC, LifeNet International, and the AllPeopleBeHappy Foundation. As co-collaborators, GECC and LifeNet International were recently awarded a Challenge Grant from the AllPeopleBeHappy Foundation for a program to transform emergency care in the Masaka District of…
"The concept of rapid, emergency care which we take for granted in America is not the standard in Uganda. But GECC is helping make it the standard." Written by: Dr. Omeed Saghafi, Volunteer Physician I am an Emergency Physician…
"I appreciate the energy and effort that GECC is putting on so that the ECP course can be recognized by the government of Uganda. We hope in the future that we can grow in our studies, and we promise to…
Personally the program has changed my life. I appreciate everything from GECC, for the support through education.” Last month, a 30 year old man in a boda boda (i.e. motorcycle) accident was brought to the Nyakibale Emergency Department in…
By: Hans Hurt, MD, GECC Volunteer Physician Simulation has been a great addition to the standard lecture format of teaching the Emergency Care Practitioners (ECPs), and has provided an opportunity to observe the wide skill set they have developed. There…
"What we know of health care in the U.S. is nonexistent here. The ECP’s must develop an amazingly broad skill set at repairing complex wounds that most Emergency Medicine physicians in the U.S. would feel uncomfortable closing on their own."…
By: Hans Hurt, MD, GECC Volunteer Physician Trauma and wound care injuries have been a huge portion of the patients that I have seen arrive to the Emergency Department at Nyakibale on a daily basis. Nyakibale is a small, district…
By: Mariel Colella, PNP, MPH candidate, GECC Global Health Fellow While GECC has been using this model for years to provide quality emergency care to those most in need in Uganda, this concept is just now being recognized by the…
By: Rashidah Nambaziira, GECC Program Coordinator - Masaka "The ECPs have proved that training non-physician clinicians in Emergency Medicine can go a long way in improving management of critical patient care within an existing low resource system." GECC started training…