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See a description of any of the three sites where our postgraduates work during their masters program:
·
Mulago National Referral
Hospital. Kampala
·
Tororo District Hospital.
Tororo (4 hours north of Kampala by car or bus)
·
Mbale District Hospital.
Mbale (5 hours north of Kampala by car or bus)
Mulago National Referral Hospital:
- location: Kampala
- when: the
Community Practice SHO spends most of 1st and 2nd
year based at Mulago Hospital
- facility:
a two-room department (currently housed within the Department of
Anatomy)
- computers:
one desktop computers
- staff: one
lecturer in the department of Community Practice
- other staff:
one secretary
- visiting staff: at some
times there are visiting lecturers who come to Makerere (for anywhere from
2 weeks to 2 years)
- housing: there is housing for the SHOs, but it is not always
available because there are many SHOs from the many different M.Med
programs at Mulago (i.e. pediatrics, surgery, medicine, and community
practice)
Tororo District Hospital:
- location: a 4 hour bus ride northeast of Kampala
- when: the
Community Practice SHO may spend 3 to 10 months during their third year
based at Tororo Hospital
- staff:
one lecturer in Community Practice
- other facilities:
one car which is owned by the department of Community Practice
- housing: there are two houses (each house has 2 bedrooms, 1 living
room, kitchen, and bathroom) owned by the department of Community
Practice.
- the day-to-day schedule for an SHO when they are
working in Tororo:
The CDC at Tororo:
- location: located within at the Tororo District Hospital
- as of December 2003: they were conducting a study investigating
whether ARVs can be safely and effectively be used with minimal use of
laboratory investigations (such as viral counts, CD4 counts, and total
lymphocyte counts)
- funded by Center for Disease Control (CDC) in the US
Mbale Regional Hospital:
- location: a 5 hour bus ride northeast of Kampala
- when: currently
the Community Practice SHO does not spend any time at Mbale Hospital
- staff: one
lecturer (i.e. the acting head of the department of Community Practice)
- other facilities:
one car for department business
- housing: none
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