MEDICAL RESIDENTS AND THEIR ELECTIVE EXPERIENCES OVERSEAS
Dr. David Campbell’s visit to Haiti – funded by the Cumming School of Medicine’s Medical Trainee Fund
In November 2015 I had the opportunity to spend a week in central Haiti working in Mirebalais with
EqualHealth. I was assigned as a Visiting Professor to teach Advanced Cardiac Life Support at Partners in
Health’s new regional teaching hospital (HUM: Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais). I taught 3 separate
cohorts of 12-20 students (residents, nurses, attending physicians) a two-day course in ACLS.
While it was a very busy week, it was also very rewarding to be able to see the students learn and grow
in their competency to run a code and resuscitate patients. Given that this was the very first time the
course has been offered at HUM, it was exciting to be a part of improving the quality of care that is
offered to the patients of the hospital. I remain hopeful that we can continue to build capacity in
resuscitative care through ongoing trainings and development. We made plans for our next visit at
which point we will focus on training a core group that will become the code team in the hospital as well
as developing trainers who will be able to continue to provide ongoing simulation sessions for training
and practice purposes between our periodic visits.
For more information on the Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais, a solar-powered hospital situated on
the Central Plateau of Haiti and the work accomplished by Partners in Health go to an article published
on HORIZON SOLUTIONS SITE (http://www.solutions-site.org)