Current challenges to urological training in sub‐Saharan Africa

Campain, Nicholas; MacDonagh, R.; Mteta, Kien; McGrath, John; Urolink, Baus

doi:10.1111/bju.13168

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“…Provision of urological care and services is limited in Ethiopia, where there are currently 15 urologists for a population of >120 million people. Urological disease typically presents at an advanced stage and treatment is predominantly provided by general surgeons with limited urological expertise .…”

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Urolink supporting the development of urological services in Hawassa, Ethiopia

et al. 2019

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Urolink supporting the development of urological services in Hawassa, Ethiopia

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“…Within Zambia/sub‐Saharan Africa, the typical urological training structure comprises 4 years of basic surgical training through either the Master of Medicine (MMed) degree in Urology or the Specialist Training Programme (STP), a fellowship programme run under the Zambia College of Medicine and Surgery (ZACOMS). Since 1999, trainees have been able to accredit their training with the Membership of the College of Surgeons (MCS) qualification and specialist Fellowship of the College of Surgeons (FCS) examination in urology, established with help from the Urolink faculty, and run by the College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa (COSECSA) [5].…”

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The benefits of virtual learning webinars to both low‐ and high‐income countries

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Mapulanga

et al. 2022

BJU International

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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic has brought about many changes in the relationships between high‐income countries and partner organisations in low‐ or low–middle‐income countries, such as predominate in sub‐Saharan Africa. Medicine, surgery and in particular urology is no exception to the changes that COVID‐19 has demanded. Urolink represents the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) on the global urology stage and has been deleteriously impacted by the pandemic. Education, one of the pillars of Urolink’s founding philosophies, has conventionally been delivered by face‐to face teaching, training, or mentoring by UK urologists at their host’s site outside of the UK. As a consequence of the inability to travel due to the pandemic, BAUS Urolink has evolved a virtual on‐line webinar package evolved by, and delivered between, urologists in Lusaka, Zambia, and various centres in the UK. The aim was to deliver curricular‐based educational topics to trainees in both countries. This programme has generated a number of live webinars and archived recordings during the pandemic that has proven accessible and educationally acceptable to trainees in the UK and Zambia. This webinar series has also generated relationships between young urologists on different continents, given each a different view of healthcare delivery outside of their country of origin at no appreciable cost, and would appear to be an educational mechanism that is durable for, and applicable to, a wider participation in the post‐pandemic world.

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“…[ 1 2 ] These conditions often cut across all age and gender. [ 3 4 ] Their distributions vary from one geographical location to another worldwide. The variation is influenced by a number of factors, including but not limited to namely, age, sex, sociocultural practices, genetic predisposition, climatic, occupational, and environmental conditions.…”

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