2010 Ghana Continuing Medical Education (CME) ConferenceThe purpose of this conference is to provide updates in clinical medicine through didactic teaching, workshops, and hands-on experiences on a broad range of topics that encompass the most common preventable and prevalent diseases in West Africa. The conference includes many hands-on workshops to provide West African physicians and nurses the opportunity to expand their diagnostic and clinical abilities through the acquisition of new skills in a small group setting. The scope of this conference is intentionally broad with a focus on common clinical conditions to achieve our long-term objective of improving the health of West Africans and preventing needless death in West Africa. Physicians, medical students, nurses and other health care personnel from Ghana and the neighboring countries of Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo and the other members of the Economic Community of West African States are welcome to attend. Africa Partners Medical (APM) is a group of American and African doctors, nurses and other health care professionals committed to improving medical care in Africa. APM does so by sponsoring educational conferences in Africa and establishing long-term partnerships with indigenous African health care personnel. The faculty of Africa Partners Medical includes physicians and nurses from Mayo Clinic, Scott and White Clinic, National Institutes of Health, Cleveland Clinic, and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, among others, who volunteer their time. Since 2000, APM has brought an annual medical education program to a total of more than 1200 physicians, residents, nurses and emergency medical technicians in Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, and Mali. |
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