Medicine Projects
U21 Health Sciences / United Nations Millennium Development Goal (MDG) training and education initiative ( see Interprofessional Projects )
U21 Health Sciences e-health
In 2008-2009, work will be undertaken to develop robust mechanisms to manage future student placements in the U21 telehealth for under-served communities initiative, and linkages with the Swinfen Charitable Trust network will be explored. A major focus for the e-health steering committee will be the development of strategies to ensure momentum on e-health policy within the WHO e-health working group.
Lord and Lady Swinfen, Founders of the Swinfen Charitable Trust (SCT) set up to provide telemedicine in the developing world, addressed medicine colleagues at the 2008 meeting, highlighting opportunities for collaboration and demonstrable outcomes, and U21 Health Sciences will continue to explore linkages with the SCT over the coming year.
In late 2005, the pilot project was transferred to the Tabubil Health Centre in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea. The Tabubil Health Centre has a 24-bed hospital, a 10-bed isolation unit and an outpatients unit that treats some 12,000 patients each month.
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