College Scholarships 2011 WFSA Paediatric Anaesthesia Fellowship Training, Kenya

College Scholarships Clinical fellowship in Paediatric Anaesthesia in kenya to train anaesthesiologists in Kenya and other Eastern African countries.

Scholarships Job Description: This is a 12 month programme that will offer fellows clinical experiences in general paediatric and subspecialty paediatric anaesthesia, pain management, critical care and a variety of educational electives including pharmacology-related clinical research, medical education and clinical teaching and patient simulation


Initially teachers will come from Europe, America, Australia, New-Zealand and Canada and other places as approved by the world federation of societies of anaesthetists. We shall have a trainer of trainers approach so we can have enough faculties not to import in a period of about 3 years.

We shall have 4 students per year, 3 from Kenya and 1 from one of the neighbouring countries. Project Goal: To improve peri-operative care of children undergoing anaesthesia and subsequently clinical outcomes in Kenya and the larger East and Central Africa through a paediatric anaesthesia fellowship program.

Scholarships Project Objectives
• To train anaesthesiologists in Kenya and other Eastern African countries in relevant knowledge and skills for delivery of safe perianaesthesia care for children in Africa
• To train Paediatric anaesthesiologists per excellence who will in turn be able to train other anaesthesia practitioners on the delivery of safe perianaesthesia care for children in Africa
• To set up comprehensive paediatric anaesthesia excellence centres in five countries in Africa, including Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi. The first of these will be in Kenya
• To develop mechanisms for professional mentorship for trained paediatric anaesthesiologists
• To train fellows in routine clinical and surveillance data collection and its application to improve service delivery.
• To develop mechanisms that will ascertain sustainability of the training program and provision of services beyond the life of this project.
• To disperse the training to all cadres of anaesthetists offering care of patients in the whole country, region.
Specific Objectives for Participating Fellows:
- To develop competence in providing peri-operative anaesthetic care for neonates, infants, children and adolescents.
- To develop leadership, teaching and research roles in anaesthesia, peri-operative care and pain management in children
- To develop an in-depth understanding of paediatric day-of-admission and day surgery practices.
- To develop an understanding of the principles of experimental design, clinical research and statistical analysis.

Scholarships Application Closing Date: by the end of November 2010

Further College Scholarships Fellowship Information and Application
http://www.anaesthesiakenya.co.ke/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=121&Itemid=121




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