Details

A review meeting conducted for Catchment Based Clinical Mentorship (CBCM) Project in Adama on September 9, 2019. The review meeting followed the same meeting, which was conducted in Debre Birhan on September 7, 2019.

The meeting aimed at reviewing the mentorship activities that have been conducted in primary hospitals. The mentors were gynecologists at general hospitals. A continuous mentorship in primary hospitals is the new approach the project is taking a lead on to improve quality of services.

On the review meeting in Debre brihan and Adama, reports were presented by gynecologists in Debre brihen general hospital and Ambo Referral Hospital, respectively, who were mentoring three primary hospitals over the period of three months. Dr. Dagim Shimelash presented all the strength and shortcomings the mentoring team witnessed at the three primary hospitals, Shewarobit Primary Hospital, Ataye Primary Hospital and Debresina Primary Hospital and also Dr. Dereje Lemma presented all the strength and shortcomings the mentoring team witnessed at the three primary hospitals, Guder Primary Hospital, Jeldu Primary Hospital and Gedo Primary Hospital.

Both presenters present a very clean compound that brought praises to all Primary Hospitals and competitive theoretical knowledge of health professionals have been documented as encouraging aspect in the primary hospitals. Documentation, inadequate practical skills and shortage of equipment, supplies and poor infrastructure need further work, the mentors noted. The presentations were well accompanied by discussions. Representatives of the Federal Ministry of Health, Amhara Health Bureau, Oromia Health Bureau, Zone Health Office and Dr. Delyeheu Bekele and Dr .Malede Birara from ESOG executive board well all present on the meetings respectively .

The goal of the mentorship program is to improve the quality of RMNCH services through skill and knowledge transfer that will ultimately lead to a decrease in maternal, newborn and child morbidity and mortality.

The project aims to involve 2 zones: 2 referral and 6 primary hospitals in each of the regions: Amhara and Oromia. Supported by the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) and in collaboration with the regional health bureaus, the project envisions to benefit a total of 650 health workers, who are the direct beneficiaries, and indirect beneficiaries of more than 250, 000 women of reproductive age groups.

Details

The Ethiopian Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ESOG) conducted a series of examinations to residency students in 12 institutions on September 4-5, 2019. The examinations were planned by the residency thematic area of the ESOG-CIRHT Collaborative Project and administered by faculty members from the institutions, with technical support from IT professional from the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH).

The examinations were part of the effort to standardize and harmonize the residency programs provided at the various institutions. The examinations were administered using the online residence matching and placement platforms in 10 institutions while students at two institutions, Wolayita and Assela took paper-based examinations.

ESOG in collaboration the Federal Ministry of Education (FMoE), Universities, HERQA and funded by Center for International Reproductive Health Training (CIRHT) has been engaged in an effort to improve the quality of medical education and residency training for obstetrician-gynecologists in Ethiopia and is working on four interrelated objectives among which one is the standardization of the residency program examination across all the universities and certification of residents.

The Examination and Certification committee of ESOG-CIRHT Collaboration Project engaged in the undertaking of the standardization of the national examination is involved in the capacity building of faculty to acquire a strong exam item preparation, skill and knowledge, creation of a standard and secure exam item bank and administration of certification examinations across all the ob-gyn residency programs in Ethiopia.

Details

The Ethiopian Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ESOG) conducted training on Research Ethics. The training was held at Intercontinental Addis Hotel fromAugust 22-24, 2019. Participants were faculty members from Black Lion Hospital, St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Yekatit 12 Medical College, members of ESOG working in the private institutions and public health professionals from other institutions.  

The training was planned as a preparation to set up ESOG’s Institutional Review Board (IRB). Selected from the trainees and approved by the Executive Board, some of the participants will be part of the to-be set up IRB.

Once established the IRB is expected to ease the burden of researchers on sexual and reproductive health (SRH) by reviewing research methodologies and issuing ethical approvals. Currently ESOG members and other researchers on SRH go to a whole lot of various institutions to get such an approval.

The trainers were Dr. Getnet Yimer and Yohannes Sitotaw from the National Ethics Review Committee and Dr. Solomon Kumbi, a senior member of ESOG and an expert on medical ethics and one of the professionals who prepared the current national research ethics guideline.

Details

The Ethiopian Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ESOG) conducted a project appraisal meeting at its Project Bureau, Nigist Towers Building, Kazanchis on July 6, 2019. The meeting, which was attended by project coordinators, principal investigators and executive board members, aimed at sharing progresses in the various running projects.

The ESOG-CIRHT Collaborative Project, QI on CAC and FP Project, Catchment Based Clinical Mentorship Project and Facility Assessment of CEmONC Services Project are the projects that reported their progresses through their coordinators. Each of the thematic areas under ESOG-CIRHT Project: CME, Residency, Leadership Development, Medical Ethics, Examination and Accreditation, Program Communications, Journal Development and IT have all shared the progress made from January 1-June 30, 2019. After the presentations were made, a series of discussions were carried out where important directions were given by the Executive Board on how to work on activities which faced challenges during implementation.

ESOG has a long standing culture of conducting such meetings every six months.

Details

The Ethiopian Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ESOG) conducted an exam writing workshop at Intercontinental Addis Hotel on June 10 – 12, 2019. The three-day workshop aimed at giving feedback to questions written by participants and developing more multiple choice questions for in program and residency exit exams: delivering 20 questions per participant.

The workshop followed another of its kind which was conducted on April 11-12, 2019. An experts from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and other local medical education experts have offered their expertise on the workshop. By the end of the project, ESOG will have realized a national board that will be responsible for the preparation and administration of certification examination graduating Ob-Gyns nationwide.

The ESOG-ACOG-CIRHT collaborative project was launched in June, 2016 with the objective of addressing four thematic areas: Resident Ship, CME, Journal and Examination, Certification and Accreditation. The thematic areas to be addressed by the collaborative project later added more areas to its list: IT, Program Communication and Leadership Development. The issue of medical ethics was added later as yet another focus area of the project.

More Articles ...

  1. CME on Doppler
  2. Clinical Mentorship Training Conducted
  3. Continued Commitment to Research, Publication
  4. Catchment Based Clinical Mentorship Project Launched