Our Vision with Media Links
GECC’S VISION: To improve global health by creating or improving access to quality emergency care in the developing world.
GECC strives to create quality sustainable emergency care systems in resource-limited settings that traditionally have lacked these services. GECC’s approach is to partner with Ministries of Health, local universities, and already existing hospitals that are interested in improving emergency care services. GECC members work with local medical providers to perform a needs assessment in order to determine which services are required most urgently. Together with the administration of the local hospital, GECC then advises on the design of an emergency department that will meet both the current needs and projected future needs of the community. Concurrently, GECC physicians and graduates of the GECC training program in Emergency Care train additional local mid-level emergency providers (Emergency Care Practitioners) to staff each new emergency department.
GECC’s ultimate goal is to transfer educational and clinical responsibilities to local providers as a self-sustainable system of emergency care is created.
EMERGENCY CARE PRACTITIONER UGANDA TRAINING PROGRAM PROJECT GOALS
1. To participate in the training of Emergency Care Practitioners (ECPs) in Uganda, via instruction of GECC’s Emergency Care Curriculum (ECC).
2. To create a sustainable Center of Excellence in Emergency Care run by a Ugandan staff of Emergency Care Practitioners.
3. To serve as a resource for the development of emergency care services throughout rural Uganda.
CHECK OUT OUR MEDIA LINKS FOR MORE INFO:
1. UNCAGE THE SOUL PRODUCTIONS has released a ten minute video on GECC’s program! Click here to view GECC’s Video:
Global Emergency Care Collaborative from Uncage the Soul Productions on Vimeo.
2. NPR RADIO: On April 1, 2010, NPR’s WorldView radio program interviewed Dr Stacey Chamberlain in detail about GECC’s Uganda “Emergency Nurse Practitioner Training Program”. You can listen to a cropped version by clicking below:
NPR’s WorldView radio interview: Dr Stacey Chamberlain
3. THESIS: Dr. Heather Hammerstedt wrote her MPH thesis on the topic of emergency care in the developing world using our district in Uganda for her case study.
To read her thesis click here:
Emergency Care in the Developing World
