International Medical Education Partnerships: Successes and Challenges
with Dr. William Stokes, MD, MSc, FRCPC, ABIM
Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021, 12:00 - 12:50 pm
Have you ever considered participating in or developing a medical education partnership with an institution from a low or middle income country (LMIC)? This talk will describe the process of implementing a medical education partnership and the challenges that are commonly encountered. Two partnerships will be used as examples: a partnership with internal medicine trainees in Georgetown, Guyana and a partnership with family physicians and medical trainees in Gondar, Ethiopia.
Dr. William Stokes is a medical microbiologist with ß÷ßäÉçÇø's Public Health Laboratory, as part of ß÷ßäÉçÇø Precision Laboratories, and an infectious disease specialist at the ß÷ßäÉçÇø. His interests and activities include medical education, rapid point of care diagnostics, and tropical medicine.