Open AccessWest Africa Sub-Regional Training and Skills Transfer: My Experience at the Urology Unit of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana
Author(s) -
Abdullahi Khalid
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
société internationale d'urologie journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2563-6499
DOI - 10.48083/uyeq3443
Subject(s) - accreditation , teaching hospital , unit (ring theory) , medicine , medical education , nursing , family medicine , psychology , mathematics education
Surgical training in the West Africa sub-regional countries produces specialist surgeons in most surgical disciplines, including urology, to ensure that people of the sub-region—and sometimes beyond—have access to surgical services. The training is conducted at tertiary health facilities accredited by the national and sub-regional postgraduate colleges.