Conlon R
Radiology Department, National Rehabilitation Hospital, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin, Ireland.
J Ultrasound. 2012 Sep;15(3):144-50. doi: 10.1016/j.jus.2012.06.003. Epub 2012 Jul 15.
This paper reports my experience as a teacher of clinical ultrasound (US) in an African hospital. While US in tropical countries has received some attention and a few papers - though possibly fewer than deserved by this issue-are available in the medical literature on this subject, very little has been done in terms of assessment of teaching.
Given the increasing number of groups, NGOs and volunteers that go to Africa and other resource limited settings to do this, I thought that sharing my experience with those who have walked or are thinking of walking the same path could be mutually beneficial.
The first section of the article presents the situation where I've been working in the past 13 years, the second section details our teaching programme.
This report describes the rationale for the implementation of ultrasound training programmes in rural areas of Africa and lessons learnt with 13 years experience from the UK with recommendations for the way forward.
本文报告了我在一家非洲医院担任临床超声(US)教师的经历。虽然热带国家的超声技术已受到一定关注,医学文献中也有一些相关论文——尽管可能比该领域应有的数量要少——但在教学评估方面所做的工作却很少。
鉴于越来越多的团体、非政府组织和志愿者前往非洲及其他资源有限的地区开展此项工作,我认为与那些已经或正在考虑走同样道路的人分享我的经验可能会互利共赢。
文章的第一部分介绍了我过去13年的工作地点,第二部分详细阐述了我们的教学计划。
本报告描述了在非洲农村地区实施超声培训计划的基本原理,以及从英国13年的经验中吸取的教训,并对未来的发展方向提出了建议。