2011 WFSA Paediatric Anaesthesia Fellowship Training, Kenya

The Programme

Project 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.

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.

Application Closing Date: by the end of November 2010
Further Fellowship Information and Application