Thirty three Graduate from the Pilot Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Thirty three Graduate from the Pilot Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene The School of Biomedical Sciences hosted a 6-week pilot short course for The East African Tropical Medicine

Thirty three Graduate from the Pilot Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

The School of Biomedical Sciences hosted a 6-week pilot short course for The East

African Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Diploma from 4th October 2010 to 12th November

2010 Twenty seven international students from Europe, Far East, USA, Canada, and Africa participated in the course Six Ugandans also trained on this program They graduated on 9th November 2010 at Makerere University College of Health Sciences, at a ceremony presided over by the Director General of Health Services, Dr Nathan Kenya-Mugisha

This program was jointly organized by Makerere University College of Health Sciences, London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, University of Washington, Johns Hopkins University, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical College, together with a number of research organizations in Uganda It has been upgraded to the East African Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Prof Alison from London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene giving a speech at the graduation ceremony attended by the then Director General of Health Services, Dr Nathan Kenya -Mugisha, the then Director Mulago Hospital-Dr Edward Dumba, Directors IDI-Alex Coutinho, Directorate of Research and Graduate Training- Prof Eli Katunguka Rwakishaya and Director Uganda Cancer Institute- Dr Jackson Orem

New Course Targets Pharmaceutical Sector workers

The Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics initiated a new short course; ‘The

Rational pharmaceutical management course’; an evening course tailored for

participants with scientific background but with no prior training in pharmaceutical sciences and yet are interested in working in the pharmaceutical sector This 10-week course is run twice a year

Medical Illustration Department Revolutionalises its Operations

The Department of Medical Illustration completed digitalizing its service delivery; all

teaching aids can be done and delivered in digital format and hard copy

• During the last one year the Department acquired a new fully-loaded computer to help in teaching and the production of scientific teaching aids

• completed the transformation of 418 teaching aids from analog and lantern slides

into digital power point teaching materials

• refurbished; repaired and refilled 364 specimen pots in the Medical Museum.

• embarked on the overhaul and refurbishing of its photography studio The new equipment will include a state- of- the- art studio lighting system complete with ceiling tracks and studio props

Some of the samples of the work the Department has done on the ARKS study