Brown-Kenya Collaborative Medical Exchange Program
The most recent international program with CFAR co-sponsorship
is the Brown-Kenya Collaborative Medical Exchange Program.
In 1990, the Indiana University School of Medicine Faculty, with
leadership from the Division of General Internal Medicine, forged
a collaboration with the Moi University Faculty of Health Sciences
Program in Eldoret, Kenya. Moi University Medical School was established
in 1990. It has developed an innovative curriculum focused on problem-based
learning and community-based health care. The first class graduated
in the fall of 1997.
Eldoret is a city of 100,000. It is a place of disquieting contrasts.
Great needs and great hopes co-exist there. Eldoret is located to
the west of the Great Rift Valley in western Kenya. The 7,000 ft
elevation is a blessing: it gives relief from the equatorial heat.
Days are sunny and nights are cool.
Through a recent partnership between Brown Medical School and Indiana
University, the Brown Medical School has been able to set up its
own unique program in Kenya - also in collaboration with Moi University.
It is open to Brown medical students as well as residents and faculty
from both Tufts and Brown University medical schools. The focus
of the Brown program is on HIV/AIDS and TB research, training and
treatment with a particular focus on the problems of opportunistic
infections in a resource poor setting. The Brown program is under
the direction of E. Jane Carter, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine
at Brown and Director of the new RISE TB Clinic at The Miriam Hospital.
Dr. Carter is a pulmonologist by training and is now working on
the issue of HIV-TB co-infection.
The program is open to medical students for an eight week rotation,
medical residents for a one month rotation, and faculty for a one
month rotation.
For more information on this exciting new exchange opportunity,
contact Janet O'Connell by email at JVOconnell@lifespan.org.
For information on the Indiana University School of Medicine Program,
you may access this web link:
http://medicine.iupui.edu/kenya/introduction.html
Click here to view the Brown/Kenya Program newsletter
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