Last month, the internship coordinator of the university program Clinical Health Officer came to visit Bo. Every year we receive a group of students from the program for their final practical internship, in which they gain as much clinical experience as possible under supervision before they start working independently in a clinic or hospital. This year we had four trainees, who were very happy with this place. 'I have learned so much, I have no words for it,' said one of them on the last day of the training. The photo shows the CHO students with the doctors from LHMC.
LHMC also offers internships for various other degree programs, particularly in the medical field. A few weeks ago, our pediatric trainees handed over the baton to their successors, Fatmata and Sulaiman, after a five-month internship. We also received a new surgical trainee. Emmanuel is a second year student of the CapaCare training program and will be doing his third clinical internship with us at the hospital. For the next five months he will strengthen our team and try to learn as much as possible in the field of wound care, skin grafts and bone fractures.
We not only want to provide affordable care to the communities that need it most, but also strengthen Sierra Leone's healthcare system as a whole. The goal is that expat doctors are eventually no longer needed and the hospital can stand on its own two feet!