John Lissoway, M.D., third year resident in the University of Florida College Of Medicine-Jacksonville Emergency Medicine Residency Program has been selected to participate in a program to improve emergency care in Ghana, West Africa, using US trained emergency physicians.
The Systems Improvement at District Hospitals and Regional Training of Emergency Care (sidHARTe) program is focused on clinical training, hands-on bedside teaching, clinical service delivery, and process improvements at two district hospitals in Ghana, over a three year period.
The program was launched last year, in collaboration with the Ghana Health Service, by Columbia University and the Mailman School of Public Health and is funded by a grant from the GE Foundation (GE).
Dr. Lissoway will travel to Ghana in May 2010 for one month. The program covers all travel related expenses associated with the fellowship.
For more information about the program go to the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.