Swansea Gambia Link A Medical & Cultural Exchange Dr S Capey Swansea University Tel 01792 513489...

Swansea Gambia LinkA Medical & Cultural Exchange

Dr S CapeySwansea UniversityTel 01792 513489

s.capey@swansea.ac.uk

A mutually beneficial global exchange

• Globalisation and healthcare• Tomorrow’s Doctors (2009)• Mutually beneficial partnership

established in 2007 supported by THET• NHS funding from SIFT• Promote shared learning, research and

improve healthcare outcomes

History of the Link• Prof Stephen Allen

– Spent 3 years working at the MRC outpost in Fijara from 1988

• Swansea University– Prof Allen member of faculty initiated

Swansea/Gambia Link– Students Self funded trips (2007)– Placement with SIFT funding (2011)– Nursing and Midwifery (2011)

The Gambia Swansea Link Committee

• Specific objectives:– Form working partnerships between staff and students in Swansea

and The Gambia to improve health care outcomes– Establish a broad partnership in health – including clinical care, health

service delivery, teaching and research– Emphasise capacity development of staff and students involved in the

Link by including education and training as part of activities wherever possible

– Identify key areas of common interest that can be developed as stand-alone projects

– Focus on facilitating improved health care delivery (i.e. use teaching and training as part of broader projects to improve service delivery.

Hospital Placement• Medical Research Council

– Fijara– Gate Clinic– TB outreach programme

• Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital– Banjul

– Surgery– Paediatrics– Obs and gynae– A&E

The Swansea Gambia Link has facilitated Gambian elective students to the UK.

• attending lectures alongside the Swansea GEM 1st and 2nd year cohorts.

• see how medicine is practiced in the UK by shadowing various doctors and surgeons in clinic and theatre in Singleton and Morriston hospitals.

Speciality

Visits to Clinics

Education

Culture

Teamwork

The Future

Any Questions