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An interactive documentation of the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) in Africa.
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Prof. Johnstone Kumwenda: University of Malawi, UNIMA, Internal medicine
(2012-09-24)Our MEPI project is concerned with training our health staff on how to deal with HIV associated malignancies. We have three main aims and the first aim is to train a few scientists in ho ... -
Dr. Miliard Derbew: Addis Ababa University (AAU), Department of Surgery
(2012-09-24)The biggest challenges, when you live in a country where there is a lot of problems usually the resources needed to solve the problems will be very great, very much increased. The challenge is we have a lot of problems in ... -
Dr. Oathokwa Nkomazana: Associate Program Director at the University of Botswana School of Medicine.
(2012-09-24)Oathokwa Nkomazana is my name and I come from Botswana. I work in the University of Botswana School of Medicine. I trained as an ophthalmologist but also in Public Health. Our MEPI project came in the second year of ... -
Prof. James Gita Hakim: MEPI Principal Investigator Professor of Medicine at the Department of Medicine, University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe
(2012-09-18)The MEPI program in Zimbabwe started at exactly the same time as the other twelve MEPI programs, which was in October 2010. We had of course planned a comprehensive program while writing the competing application for the ... -
Dr. Emilia Noormahomed: MEPI Principal Investigator, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique
(2012-09-25)Our MEPI initiative has four main goals. One to increase the number and the quality of training of residents so that they will be the future faculty members for the three public universities in Mozambique and the others ... -
David Olufem Olaleye: MEPI Principal Investigator, Lecturer, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
(2012-09)The biggest challenge is actually, you know, getting everyone on board. Getting all the stakeholders on board. Getting my colleagues to understand the conceptsthat we tryto put forward. This for me is understandable. I do ... -
Prof. Yakub Mulla: MEPI Principal Investigator; Dean of Postgraduate Studies, University of Zambia, Zambia
(2012-08-28)Zambia is a country that attained independence in 1964. Two years later, in ‘66, the new medical school began, and population of Zambia has increased now from 4 million to 13 million. One of the failures of government ... -
Prof. Nelson Sewankambo: Principal (Head) of Makerere University College of Health Sciences; Chair Principal Investigators, Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI)
(Transcribed by Alison Oppenheim, 2012)Transcribed by Alison Oppenheim Date: October 18, 2012 Professor Nelson Sewankambo Principal (Head) of Makerere University College of Health Sciences. Chair Principal Investigators, Medical Education Partnership ...
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