Program Information

Mission Statement:

The GPHC Emergency Medicine Post-Graduate Degree Program will serve to produce competent and compassionate physicians who have achieved excellence in clinical skills, procedural capabilities, professionalism and service to GPHC and Guyana. The post-graduate residency training program will serve to train residents to the level of consultant and advance the specialty of Emergency Medicine both locally and globally.

Current Situation (updated July 2017)

As of July 2017, 9 residents over 4 batches have successfully completed its clinical and academic requirements and passed the final exam. The programme’s first graduate in 2013 has been promoted to consultant in EM and is the Head of the Department of Accident and Emergency. One graduate has returned to her home country of Antigua and Barbuda. We have 8 graduates who are senior registrars and lead the various aspects of the department of A&E. Dr. Zelda Luke is the Assistant Programme Director and manages the residency locally, with Dr. Nicolas Forget providing oversight as Programme Director. The other senior registrars have leadership roles as Trauma Coordinator, Assistant Head of Department, Critical Care coordinator, EMS, education, and more.

History:

After several years of collaboration between physicians from Georgetown Public Hospital and Vanderbilt University Medical Center in the United States the decision was made to propose a post-graduate Emergency Medicine training program.

For a number of years, Dr. Madan Rambaran of Georgetown Public Hospital and Drs. Jeffry McKinzie and John Paul Rohde of Vanderbilt University discussed the acute shortage of trained emergency medicine physicians in Guyana. The need for specialty-trained physicians has led to this proposal for Guyana’s first Post-Graduate Emergency Medicine Residency Training Program.