Off for a Rural Rotation in KUMI (on Monday)!

A map of Uganda with Kumi highlighted.

A on-going trend in medical education is the concentration of physicians in specialities and in urban areas. The University of Washington has programs to encourage medical students to experience medicine in rural areas in the United States. It turns out that the Medical School in we are at in Uganda also has a program like this. It is called the COBES program (see blog posts in the spring). It is allows Ugandan medical students can go to a rural area in Uganda and experience medicine there. We were invited to go on a COBES rotation for 4-6 weeks. We have selected our location which is Kumi, a town of about 12,000 people. Kumi is about 300 kilometers from Kampala, the capital where we are staying now. Apparently, there is a private hospital in Kumi along with smaller rural clinics that we can work at. There is a guest house next to the hospital that Annie and I will be staying it. The hospital has Uganda's leprosy treatment center which should also be very interesting to observe.

For a University of Washington requirement, I have to complete a independent investigative inquiry project. I think I will try to complete the project during the 4-6 weeks I am in Kumi. Hopefully it goes well!