Director of the Institute of Health Science Education (IHSE), Dr. Madan Rambaran recently spoke about the accomplishments of the local residency post-graduate education in the last seven years in Guyana.
Apart from enabling young medical doctors’ access to post-graduate education, thereby creating a core of highly trained professionals, the ultimate goal of these programmes is to improve the quality of care delivered to the patients, a release from the Government Information Agency (GINA) said.
In 2006, the first medical post-graduate programme in surgery was launched in Guyana; when many people were skeptical of this approach as they were of the view that Guyana was not ready for such a step.
According to GINA, Dr. Rambaran and other pioneers in the medical field including Dean of the University of Guyana’s Faculty of Health Science, Dr. Emmanuel Cummings, continued to press forward to develop a model for post-graduate education. The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has partnered with several renowned international medical institutions to successfully deliver these post-graduate programmes.
The surgery programme was successfully implemented