Postgraduate radiology training in sub-Saharan Africa: A review of current educational resources1

Percutaneous drainage of abdominal fluids using available materials: University of Benin teaching hospital experience

“…This impedance on interventional radiology evolution in Africa affects both the practice and training of radiologists. Consequently, there is need for high income countries, radiology vendors, radiologists and radiological organizations to help Africa's postgraduate radiology training programs fulfil their mission of training Africa's next generation of radiologists [6].…”

“…In Africa, radiology trainees receive considerably less training in interventional radiology as compared to their counterpart in other continents [6]. Consequently, performance of radiological interventions is rare in several developing countries, while in some (like Nigeria), it is sprouting fast in some geo-political zones.…”

White Paper Report of the 2011 RAD-AID Conference on International Radiology for Developing Countries: Integrating Multidisciplinary Strategies for Imaging Services in the Developing World

“…The need for improved educational strategies is twofold: (1) educating personnel living in developed countries to serve in limited resource regions, and (2) educating local healthcare providers living in the developing world to improve the quality of radiologic service [26]. …”

International Skeletal Society outreach in Sub-Saharan West Africa

“…As occurs in even the developed world, the non-radiologists often tries to interpret (or practice) radiology with or without additional training. Still very valid, however, is the assertion of Rabinowitz and Pretorius that between 25 and 30% of all decisions to perform medical procedures derive from imaging findings, and Africa's needs are no different from the rest of the world [4]. Participating at the ARAWA showed the level of the conference to be quite sophisticated and that the radiologists are as well informed as their colleagues in other parts of the world.…”