Haiti - Health : 3 new projects of medical training
The University of Sherbrook (UdeS), Québec, reiterates its commitment by investing in three new projects of medical training, with the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Quisqueya.
To carry out these projects to fruition, Sherbrookoises teams, will deploy to Haiti to provide training for students in medicine of Quisqueya. "The reconstruction of Haiti, it is not only physical infrastructure. We work in Haiti on human infrastructure. People there, feel respected and know that we are here to work with them and not just for them," indicated Dr. Paul Grand'Maison, Director of International Relations Office of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences health of the UdeS.
In a first project, Haitian teachers receive a pedagogical training enabling them to improve their clinical teaching. In the two other projects, teachers of Sherbrooke, together with the University of Calgary, will contribute to the enrichment of care for children and adolescents, for neurological and surgical training of medical students at the University of Quisqueya.
Recall that it is in February 2010, during a mission of surgical care, that a first contact was established with Geneviève Poitevien Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Quisqueya. A month later, the faculty of Sherbrooke took the mission to support the University of Quisqueya, to ensure the graduation of the cohort of doctors graduating of 2010, whose Haiti urgently needed. Since then the teachers of Sherbrooke, made more than 30 academic missions ; 90 people have traveled to Haiti to provide training or care, not to mention the frequent 90 people have traveled to Haiti to provide training or care, not to mention the frequent of practitioners Haitian in pedagogical training in Sherbrooke.
