RWANDA FAMILY MEDICINE PROGRAM
The FM-program in Rwanda started in 2008 and was supported by the University of Colorado with a grant form CDC Atlanta.
PIH (Partners in Health) with NUR (National University of Rwanda), Faculty of medicine, department of family medicine.
FAMCO (family medicine and community health MMed training) is a 4 year Program and started in 2008, with presently 12 trainees. The first group of 7 trainees is in their 3rd year and the 2nd group of 5 trainees is in their 1st year.
Michel Miller is the acting head of the training. There is no department of FM yet. Ruanda is improving fast: read the country report on health
Mieke Visser (a former tropical doctor and an MPH in public health) was supported by the Primafamed Edulink ACP EU project. In this project a number of universities collaborate around increasing the awareness of FM. Mieke organised the community health rotation in the training.
Want to read her report? Click for the program of the residents The PM-fund supported a two day extra training in practice management for the residents given by Pieter van den Hombergh. All 7 residents attended as well as Michel Miller. Click for a brief summary on this practice management course. The powerpoint used is the same as in the NTC
A lot of teaching material was made available by PIH and Mieke, to be used for trainnig in FM.
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Mieke Visser |
Dinner with Corrado, and specialists supproting the FM-training |
Management course with the head of Dep. Michael Miller, Mieke and the students |
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