Capacity Building Program in Sonography
BMZ/GIZ – African Cultural Institute
Hospital Partnership Program in Ghana
Call for Volunteer Sonographers to
Join Sonography Courses in Ghana
Dear Colleagues,
It is our great pleasure to invite you to join the ICI
sonography team and to contribute with your clinical experience, wealth of
knowledge in sonography and team spirit by engaging in teaching the young
generation Ghanaian physicians to develop skills in sonography to improve the
healthcare at secondary and tertiary level for the underserved communities.
This initiative is addressed to active and retired sonographer volunteers and
Chiefs of gastroenterology and radiology departments to support this mentorship
program.
Objectives: To promote skill training programs in sonography in
Ghana. To enhance the capacity in sonography to strengthen the clinical services
for the management of abdominal organ and breast diseases.
Purpose: To teach clinicians and residents sonographic
diagnostics. To strengthen the capacity in sonography diagnostics in the
regional hospitals. To bring the underserved population to a stage of diagnosis
for proper conservative and surgical therapies. To improve sonography clinics
and services for enhancing the health systems at secondary and tertiary level.
Impact: The
sonography courses and clinics will: provide
competence in diagnostics and in the management of emergencies in abdominal and
breast diseases, develop an institutional infrastructure for interventional abdominal
procedures, biopsies and endoscopy, provide continuing educational (“sandwich
courses”) and training courses to the next generation sonographers and medical
technical assistants.
Target groups: Internists, radiologists and residents
Format
Teaching the teachers program. Postgraduate “Sandwich” clinical courses for specialists
in internal medicine, radiology. Hands-on sonography courses for physicians and
nurses. Leadership courses for physicians and nurses. Certification in
sonography.
Invitation
to Mentor Sonography Training Courses
Where: Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, Cape Coast, Ghana
When: Spring, summer, autumn
2019.
Tentative
dates: March, April, May,
June September and November
Duration: At least one week
Travel
support: Air tickets, boarding
and lodging will be provided.
Whom
to send your application: You
may send your application to E-mail: cyankah@web.de
Prof. Dr. Charles Yankah,
President & Founder, African Cultural Institute (ICI)
E-mail: cyankah@web.de Mobile: +49-172-3020143