BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre
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Dr. Dorothy Shaw
4500 Oak Street ,B2 (B242)
Vancouver, British Columbia
V6H 3N1
dshaw@cw.bc.ca
604-875-2809
Website: www.bcwomens.ca/default.htm
Initiative: Memorandum of Understanding with Makerere University
Countries: Uganda
Objective: The Faculties of Medicine and Dentistry, UBC, and the Faculty of Medicine, Makerere University have had an agreement since 2007 with the overall purpose of fostering activities related to education programs and potential research cooperation between the two universities. In 2010 this Memorandum was expanded to include the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UBC, and the College of Health Sciences, Makerere. As stated in the MOU the overall goals are for the institutions to: 1. Make arrangements for special courses and exchanges of visiting scholars/learners; 2. Seek support to cooperate in a variety of projects, programs and research linkages; 3. Extend invitations for attending scholarly and technical meetings, national and international conferences; 4.Exchange scholarly information including research papers,indices to theses, books/magazines in relevant subjects.
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Initiative: Structured Operative Obstetrics (SOO)
Countries: Ethiopia, Uganda
Objective: Structured Operative Obstetrics, Canadian Network for International Surgery (CNIS) http://www.cnis.ca/what-we-do/safer-surgical-and-obstetrics-program/soo/. Dr Jan Christilaw, worked with the CNIS to develop the curriculum and assisted in the first pilot of this course in Addis Abba, Ethiopia, in 2007 and the second pilot in Kampala,Uganda. Since that time it has been held in other locations in Uganda such as Mbarara and in other countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The SOO instructors course certifies participants to teach and implement a Surgical Obstetrical Training Program. The certified African instructors go on to teach the SOO providers course, which brings structured operative learning to early obstetrical training. With three components of lectures, laboratory sessions and a clinical practicum, the course helps students with problems encountered with vaginal deliveries, including vacuum extraction, cervical laceration and removing a retained placenta. Students also have the opportunity to practice plotting the course of a hypothetical patient’s progress in labour on a partogram, as recommended by the World Health Organization and the Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics (http://new.cnis.ca/what).
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