Moi University Family Medicine Training Program in ELDORET (See the KAFP-website)
Report of the visit in april 2011 to The FM training (as well as the report for the donors)
More pictures will follow.
- The Community Health Workers in Naitiri showed us their contribution to Family Health
- Hans, Marianne and Geraldine At the special parking place in Eldoret University Hospital
- The Vision and Mission of Naitiri Hospital supporting community & Family Health
- Thigiti, Geraldine and The Management Board of Kangundu hospital
- The CHW did a play to make clear what their daily work was.
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Training Family Medicine in Moi-university in Eldoret KENYA
WHY a Family Health-training
The former tropical doctor is a much needed specialty in Africa. African doctors cannot enter a training for generalists. If there is also no opportunity to become specialist, they leave their country. The training for Family Medicine or General Practice in Kenya is a training for all round doctors in sub-district hospitals and health centers. That was the reason for a FM-training in Eldoret. Read the policy document on Kenyan Family Medicine presented and approved by the Kenyan MOH. This document was based on work done in a two day workshop with all the people involved in the FM-training in Moi and was lead by Jarl Chabot.
Such a generalist could help to close the gap between specialist care and care given by the various non-physician workers. Good primary care, backed up by research & education derived from the profession of general practice is in great demand and necessary to escape the poverty spiral. A training for Family practice/ general practice has started in Eldoret (Kenya) and is a promising development.
The M.Med FM Program is to prepare competent, caring, compassionate Family Physicians committed to serving their community by providing leadership in their communities, in addressing the broad range of health needs, rendering comprehensive clinical services, educating themselves to life-long learning. Moi University cooperates with Infa-Med and the WHIG in the training.
INFA-MED works in collaboration with Moi University Medical School and three CHAK teaching hospitals, namely, Tenwek, Kijabe and Lugulu, which offer training for Family Medicine practitioners.
During the visit of Eldoret in 2001 we spoke to Doctor Otsyula, the dean of the Eldoret University and the team of staff determined to provide FP-training for interested doctors. Half of the Kenyan doctors cannot enter a specialty after finishing university and either go abroad (brain drain) or start a practice to get an income. A tropical generalist training was clearly missing. For those interested, you find the report of our first visit to find out if the Eldoret project was viable: Report Eldoret FP. Extensive information on Family practice and community oriented Primary care trainings programs van WONCA East Africa by Hunt et al (GHETS and TUFH) is available in a two PDF-files: A first and a follow-up report. This is basic information for anybody who likes to be involved in GP-capacity building & training in East Africa.The latest report of the visit of Geraldine you can find here
The slide presentation of Prof Ron Pust gives a good impression of the FM-training in Moi,
how it is embedded, its ambitions + some clinical impressions. A must.
