Otolaryngology Training in Uganda: The Mbarara University of Science and Technology Experience
Abstract Sub‐Saharan Africa has a high otolaryngologic disease burden exacerbated by an inadequate number of otolaryngologists. The Otolaryngology department at Mbarara University of Science & Technology in Uganda is addressing this problem by having created Uganda's second national residen...
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| author | Ryan A. Bartholomew John Ceremsak Victoria Nyaiteera Eva Senechal Vivek Kanumuri Mack Cheney Ronald K. deVenecia Doreen Nakku David A. Shaye |
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| description | Abstract Sub‐Saharan Africa has a high otolaryngologic disease burden exacerbated by an inadequate number of otolaryngologists. The Otolaryngology department at Mbarara University of Science & Technology in Uganda is addressing this problem by having created Uganda's second national residency training program in 2010. We chronicled an early period in the program's development by reporting surgical case quantity and complexity, as defined by “key indicator procedure” classification per the United States Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, and interpreting it with respect to a timeline of significant events. Procedure complexity, but not total number per year, increased over the study period—KIPs increased from 3% in 2012 (6 of 175 total procedures) to 29% in 2016 (35 of 135 total procedures). During this period of complexity increase, operating room capacity expanded, faculty received advanced training and increased in number, and operative equipment improved. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c6c785098cc147acb8594848e1fca4132023-11-21T15:50:29ZengWileyOTO Open2473-974X2023-01-0171n/an/a10.1002/oto2.30Otolaryngology Training in Uganda: The Mbarara University of Science and Technology ExperienceRyan A. Bartholomew0John Ceremsak1Victoria Nyaiteera2Eva Senechal3Vivek Kanumuri4Mack Cheney5Ronald K. deVenecia6Doreen Nakku7David A. Shaye8Department of Otolaryngology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Harvard Medical School Boston Massachusetts USADepartment of Otolaryngology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Harvard Medical School Boston Massachusetts USADepartment of Otolaryngology Mbarara University of Science and Technology Mbarara UgandaDepartment of Otolaryngology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Harvard Medical School Boston Massachusetts USADepartment of Otolaryngology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Harvard Medical School Boston Massachusetts USADepartment of Otolaryngology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Harvard Medical School Boston Massachusetts USADepartment of Otolaryngology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Harvard Medical School Boston Massachusetts USADepartment of Otolaryngology Mbarara University of Science and Technology Mbarara UgandaDepartment of Otolaryngology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Harvard Medical School Boston Massachusetts USAAbstract Sub‐Saharan Africa has a high otolaryngologic disease burden exacerbated by an inadequate number of otolaryngologists. The Otolaryngology department at Mbarara University of Science & Technology in Uganda is addressing this problem by having created Uganda's second national residency training program in 2010. We chronicled an early period in the program's development by reporting surgical case quantity and complexity, as defined by “key indicator procedure” classification per the United States Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, and interpreting it with respect to a timeline of significant events. Procedure complexity, but not total number per year, increased over the study period—KIPs increased from 3% in 2012 (6 of 175 total procedures) to 29% in 2016 (35 of 135 total procedures). During this period of complexity increase, operating room capacity expanded, faculty received advanced training and increased in number, and operative equipment improved.https://doi.org/10.1002/oto2.30global surgerylow‐middle income countryotolaryngologyresidency trainingsurgical trainingUganda |
| spellingShingle | Ryan A. Bartholomew John Ceremsak Victoria Nyaiteera Eva Senechal Vivek Kanumuri Mack Cheney Ronald K. deVenecia Doreen Nakku David A. Shaye Otolaryngology Training in Uganda: The Mbarara University of Science and Technology Experience OTO Open global surgery low‐middle income country otolaryngology residency training surgical training Uganda |
| title | Otolaryngology Training in Uganda: The Mbarara University of Science and Technology Experience |
| title_full | Otolaryngology Training in Uganda: The Mbarara University of Science and Technology Experience |
| title_fullStr | Otolaryngology Training in Uganda: The Mbarara University of Science and Technology Experience |
| title_full_unstemmed | Otolaryngology Training in Uganda: The Mbarara University of Science and Technology Experience |
| title_short | Otolaryngology Training in Uganda: The Mbarara University of Science and Technology Experience |
| title_sort | otolaryngology training in uganda the mbarara university of science and technology experience |
| topic | global surgery low‐middle income country otolaryngology residency training surgical training Uganda |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/oto2.30 |
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