Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital

The Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital ( RVTH ) is the central hospital of the capital Banjul in The Gambia. Was notified on March 21, 2013, that the hospital in Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital ( EFSTH ), named after Edward Francis Small, has been renamed.

Description

The state hospital at the July 22 Drive (formerly known as Independence Drive) applies with 540 hospital beds as the most modern in the country and was established under the British colonial administration by 1853. The operation of the Royal Victoria Hospital ( RVH ) in 1903 improved with the help of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Cluny.

Since the late 1990s it is named after the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital, as it is connected to a university hospital to the University of the Gambia and students forms in medical professions. The first 15 students came in November 2002 RVTH. The hospital participates further in international research studies on the fight against malaria and hepatitis disease.

Medical school

The course of human medicine was Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh created with the founding of a medical school in 1994 in cooperation with Cuba to press ahead with health care reform. To date, Gambian doctors in Senegal and the United States and Europe had to study. The regulation of medical studies in the Gambia is subject to the "Department of State for Health and Social Welfare " and the " Gambian Medical and Dental Council ."

The MBChB (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery ) degree program takes about 6.5 years in Gambia and is composed as follows:

The Preclinical study section is closer to the Cuban course of medicine during the clinical portion of the structure and content is according to the pattern of Britain and Europe, but with a particular emphasis on tropical medicine. The faculty is 80% for doctors and professors your degree in European / American countries have graduated. To derive, for example, in addition to the Cuban doctors, the PIS ( Promoting integrated health services ) program, also doctors of medical Swansea University in England closely with the University of The Gambia. Most students leave to do their residency training after graduating at The Gambia then in the U.S. or in Europe.

In addition to the classic medical studies the forms RVTH 2 more professional groups:

  • Bachelor of Science in Nursing and Midwifery
  • Bachelor of Science in Public Health
  • Master of Public Health in health promotion and development in collaboration with the Universities of Illinois and Iowa in the United States.
  • Master of Science in public health in environmental and occupational health.
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