Workshop PHC Dep. Remera campus, University of Rwanda, College of Medicine and Health Sciences and visiting Partners in Health (PiH) sites Butaro (palliative care) and Rwinkwavu (social medicine) Junior clerkships medical students, February 2025
The PHC dep. team, L to R: Mieke, Vincent (former HoD), Claudine, Khelia, Similien, Elysee, Richard, Mojeed, Daniel, Francois, Boniface.
Aim of the workshop: Preparing and revising teaching materials of Module MED2256, SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY MEDICINE 2 (Occupation Health, Environment Health and Preventive Medicine); Uploading all teaching materials in Moodle to be used by lecturers and students.
Mieke Visser was invited by HoD Richard Nduwayezu to assist in organising the workshop.
10-12 February preparation workshop dr Richard Nduwayezu, dr Claudine Abibeshya and dr Mieke Visser
13-14 and 21 February workshop Department PHC
Attended by dr Richard Nduwayezu, dr Mojeed Gbadamosi, dr Daniel Byiringiro, dr Chantal Ingabire, dr Khelia Mahoro, dr Mieke Visser, Elysee Nsengiyumva and Francois Kalisa. The Units were assigned to PHC department faculty, responsible for revision, updating and uploading teaching materials of Social and Community Medicine II training;
- Population Health, – demography
- Health Systems Management, – traditional medicine, quality improvement, implementation of quality improvement projects, supervision and mentorship of community programs
- Social Medicine, – occupational health, environmental health, one health, gender issues
- Communication Skills, – patient-centered communication and consultation, relationship building, empathy, sympathy, health education, interdisciplinary communication, teaching and mentoring skills
- Professionalism, – personal role, reflection, feedback, patients rights
New teaching materials have been created and uploaded in Moodle during the workshop, eg demography, traditional medicine, quality improvement projects, occupational health, patient-centered communication, and were shared with team members. These are used as examples for updating other new teaching materials.
The successful workshop was an important contribution to continuously improving the training materials of medical, dental and pharmacy students and the accessibility of these materials for students in Moodle.
NB Kamilla Laut, a Danish Social Medicine (societal medicine) specialist, who was in Rwanda to teach ISOCO in 2023, gave her input and feedback in the occupational medicine training materials.
Visit PiH sites Butaro and Rwinkwavu:
5-6 February Butaro hospital support supervision palliative care rotation 5th year medical students,
See report dr Claudine Abibeshya.
19-20 February visit Rwinkwavu PiH site with dr Vincent Cubaka, Director of Knowledge and Research PiH. Dr Vincent gave a lecture to medical students who did the rotation in social and community medicine.
Pm fund provided the money for ticket costs (euro 1452,-) and allowance costs (80,-) for support supervision of faculty.