by Aoife Connors, Irish Medical Times
The training method at COSECSA is bound by the principle of a ‘college without walls’. The College has no physical teaching buildings and instead training is undertaken in accredited hospitals. Thus far, the collaboration programme has established and equipped 18 ICT labs in Kenya, Zambia, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Malawi and Uganda. A dedicated e-learning platform has been launched, known as schoolforsurgeons.net. In March 2010, new online courses began for continuous development and a COSECSA website has been designed. COSECSA has two programmes: the membership that is a certificate of competence in surgery at general medical officer grade, requiring two years’ training; and the fellowship, a specialist qualification in general, orthopaedics, neurosurgery, urology or plastic surgery, which requires five years’ training.
http://www.imt.ie/features-opinion/2011/07/building-a-college-without-walls.html
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