Sunday 3rd November
Today is a day spent in the office,
finalising the written report of the last two weeks teaching. Before this, I
have breakfast with Mary-Jo and Eqbal and we all go to a local shop to search
for camel bells to take back for friends as souvenirs. It feels rewarding to
reflect on the last 2 weeks and in fact the last 2 months I have spent in
Somaliland and I realise just how much I have managed to do in this time. I
started by leading, with local colleagues, two TOT mental health skills
training courses for interns and other health practitioners including nurses,
in both Hargeisa and Borama. Then, with local colleagues, led revision teaching
for the 6th year medical students in both Hargeisa and Borama and
simultaneously worked in partnership with local colleagues and both University
Faculties on integrating further psychiatry into the medical students
curriculum as a stand-alone clinical attachment. This included developing
appropriate learning outcomes for the attachment and organizing suitable people
to lead this project, both on the ground and also in UK, via the online
learning platform Medicine Africa. This has now been accepted and shall start
in November, which is a very exciting prospect as never before have the medical
students had psychiatry as a clinical attachment.
The last month has been spent in Borama,
and the past two weeks has been taken up with the annual teaching of the 5th
year medical students. Next stop, Berbera! Tomorrow we shall travel up north to
undertake a needs assessment of the mental health services available there, in
order to see whether THET might be able to offer any assistance with training
and in other ways.
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