In 2008, the Cave Hill
Campus upgraded and expanded its 40 year old clinical programme in the School
of Clinical Medicine and Research to full faculty status incorporating a 3-year
Phase 1 programme.
Post Graduate medical
training
Over the years,
postgraduate programmes in a wide range of medical specialties have also been
developed at all campuses. The Cave Hill Campus has strong programmes in
clinical specialties, leading to the DM in hospital based specialties as well
as the Diploma, Masters and DM in Family Medicine. The Masters in Public Health
was initiated in 2008, and most recently, a PhD in Public Health.
The DM Programmes offered
include:
1. Accident and Emergency Medicine
2. Anaesthesics and Intensive Care
3. Family Medicine
4. Internal Medicine
5. Paediatrics
6. General Surgery
7. Ophthalmology
8. Obstetrics & Gynecology
9. Psychiatry
The postgraduate programs
are mostly 4 years duration (General Surgery lasts 5 years) at the end of which
the candidate obtains a Doctor of Medicine (DM) degree. The family medicine
program also offer 3 year Master of Science (MSc.) degree. Additionally there
is a distance diploma offered in Family Medicine and plans to introduce one in
Emergency Medicine in the near future.
For further information
contact the Faculty of Medical Sciences at
Cave Hill (Pre-Clinical)
Telephone: (246)-417-4694 or (246)
417-4703 or email
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
(Clinical) Telephone: (246)429-5112,
(246)437-8335 or (246)436-6450 ext 6229/6339 or
email
Two CME conferences are held usually in May and November every year
in a collaboration between BAMP and UWI’s SCMR. A number of local and
international medical professionals present papers on various interesting
topics. Family physicians can gain CME credits at these conferences. See our
Events Calendar for this year’s CME details.
Now you can view
presentations made at BAMP/UWI Continuing Medical Education conferences
online!!!
You can download these
presentations for free for a 30 day trial. After this you must be a
paid a BAMP member and must sign in . If you are not yet a member, signup now
CME Nov 2006(MEMBERS
ONLY)
BLS (Basic Life Support)
and ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support)
These courses can be done
at the Heart and Stroke foundation of Barbados . Please see
our link here on
more information about the function of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of
Barbados on our NGO page.
Caribbean HIV/AIDS Regional
Training Network
The CHART
Network leads the way in training excellence with the aim of reducing
the burden and impact of HIV, AIDS and related conditions in every Caribbean
country and territory.
OVERSEAS
Jamaica
Contact University
of the West Indies (UWI) Mona campus for more details. They offer the
full 5 year undergraduate medical course and a few more postgraduate courses
than the SCMR.
USA
Postgraduate training in
the USA requires completion of USMLE examinations which makes the
physician eligible to be licensed for medical practice in the States. Refer to
Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) for
more information.
Canada
Similar to the USA,
Caribbean-trained doctors are required to sit qualifying MCC examinations to be
licensed for practice/specialty training in Canada. Contact the Medical Council
of Canada’s website here.
UK
Again examinations called
the PLAB test are to be sat in order for International Medical Graduates (IMGs)
to demonstrate that they have the necessary skills and knowledge to practise
medicine in the UK.
NBThe Department of Health(UK) announced on 7 March 2006
that from 3 April 2006 International Medical Graduates (IMGs) - who are not UK
or EEA nationals - wishing to work or train in the UK will need a work
permit.
Employment prospects are
now very diificult and you should consider this seriously
before setting out to the UK!
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