Timely Training – Mass Casualty Event
"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…
ECPs and Ultrasound In Uganda
By: Michael Schick DO, MA, Director of Ultrasound Each year I travel to Uganda to teach point-of-care ultrasound to training and graduated Emergency Care Practitioners (ECPs) in Uganda. As the co-director of ultrasound for Global Emergency Care with my colleague…
Transforming Emergency Care In The Masaka District Of Uganda
Update: AllPeopleBeHappy Disburses Second Installment of Joint Challenge Grant to Global Emergency Care and LifeNet International Masaka, Uganda: AllPeopleBeHappy (APBH) is well on its way to awarding $2M in grants since its founding in 2007. But, for ABPH, it’s not just about donations; it’s…
ECPS teach ultrasound to imaging the world
Written by: Rashidah Nambaziira, Masaka Program Director, GEC Recently, Global Emergency Care (GEC) was honored to collaborate with Imaging The World (ITW) on a 2-day emergency care training. Imaging The World’s mission is to bring accessible, affordable, high quality ultrasound…
Sedation and Trauma Simulation
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…
Advance Suturing Skills Lab
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…
Education that saves lives
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…
New Ultrasound Education Research Published
GECC would like to congratulate Dr. Lori Stolz and her team on their publication, Point-of-care ultrasound education for non-physician clinicians in a resource-limited emergency department in the journal, Tropical Medicine and International Health. In the paper, Dr. Stolz and her team describe a novel…
A Team Comes Together
Written by Caleb Dresser, GECC Program Director It’s been ten months since the Junior Emergency Care Practitioners (ECPs) started their training. They’ve sat through hundreds of hours of lectures, taken four tests and countless quizzes, and worked a full-time schedule…
ECP Educational Outreach In Ibanda
Written by: Caleb Dresser, Uganda Program Director In addition to their clinical role in the Emergency Department, GECC’s Emergency Care Practitioners (ECPs) are dedicated educators. This week, two of our Qualified ECPs, Birungi Alfunsi and John Bosco, put their teaching…