Family Medicine Resident Teaching

Location: Laos

 

Project description:

The Lao Family Medicine training model is to train a 5-Star doctor, meaning that a family medicine graduates is able to be a clinician, educator, community leader, manager, and researcher. 

Numerous faculty members from the University of Calgary have worked with UHS and provincial teachers to provide teaching to family medicine residents. Our collaboration in teaching has been and continues to be in three main areas.

Clinical Skills

  • University of Calgary worked with Lao faculty and family medicine graduates to:
    • Develop a clinical skills manual that covers history-taking and physical examination skills for all systems in Lao language
    • Develop on-line videos of physical examination in Lao language
    • Specific courses in clinical management and clinical decision-making
    • Curricular material has been developed in Lao language that covers some fundamental knowledge and skill in maternal and child health, trauma care, and adult chronic disease management.
  • Some specific courses that University of Calgary faculty have helped create or have utilized pre-existing curriculum include:
    • Helping Babies Breathe and Helping Babies Survive
    • Using the WHO Pediatric manual for Pediatric Emergencies
    • Pre-eclampsia and Eclampsia
    • Bleeding After Birth
    • Primary Trauma Course
    • Reading ECG’s and Cardiac Emergencies
    • Managing Common Adult Chronic Diseases
    • Diagnosis and Management of Common Mental Health Presentations
  • Skills for community-based and health facility quality improvement projects
    • University of Calgary worked with Lao faculty and family medicine graduates to:
      • Develop Community Project Manual in Lao language for family medicine community-based quality improvement projects
      • Develop Community project orientation module for family medicine residents
      • Develop quality improvement (QI) workshops and cultivate QI projects amongst family medicine graduates 

We continue to work with UHS and family medicine graduates to develop a cadre of clinicians who can organize, teach, and assess family medicine residents in these skills.

 

Project partners: University of Health Sciences, Lao PDR