Overseas Laboratory Now!!

Sierra Leone laboratory systems – now and future

The impact of the 2013–2016 Ebola virus disease outbreak in the Mano River Union region, which includes Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea,1 is a direct indicator of the acute limitations in national healthcare systems and the critical role played by diagnostic and public health laboratories. Despite having a Central Public Health Reference Laboratory, Sierra Leone lacked the capacity to provide ...

Testing overseas doctors.

Developing Overseas Strategies:

This paper provides the reader with a systematic context analysis involved in acquiring and restructuring (reconceiving) knowledge needed for strategic management decision making and action. Within this structured context analysis, a considerable amount of unstructured entrepreneurial, innovative, and "breaking the mold" thinking and action can be required to gain the insights needed to win aga...

Overseas Doctors Training Scheme.

The Overseas Doctors Training Scheme was estab lished by the Royal College of Psychiatrists in August 1989. Feedback from trainees placed in post has indicated that their early experience in the UK could have been eased had they been able to attend an induction course which addressed their specific needs. In response to this the Overseas Liaison Com mittee decided to hold their first induction ...

Overseas doctors' training.

For many years British paediatricians have been welcoming overseas doctors to their hospitals for postgraduate training, and of some 270 paediatric registrars currently employed in the National Health Service (NHS) in England and Wales over 100 were born overseas. These posts have always offered good practical training, although their organisation has of necessity been haphazard. In a memorandu...