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Isolation Precautions at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital

10 February, 2007 by GAggreyMD Leave a Comment

As a budding infectious diseases specialist I am interested in infection prevention. I am doing a two month rotation at The Fevers Unit at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Ghana. It’s a separate building on the campus where people with HIV/AIDS are taken care of. The focus of my rotation is to get more experience taking care […]

Filed Under: Medical Training Tagged With: Boards, Hand Hygiene, Healthcare, Medical Residency, Poverty, Prevention, Tetanus, Vaccines, Varicella

Surprise Galore

10 February, 2007 by GAggreyMD Leave a Comment

I’m so tired! How did that happen? I’m supposed to be relaxing! I wake up daily around 5:45 am to get to Korle-Bu by 9 am. Whether it is seeing patients in clinic or rounding on the inpatient service they are both mentally draining. To add to that, the more I practice MKSAP questions, the […]

Filed Under: Medical Training Tagged With: Boards, Ghana, Korle-Bu, Medical Residency

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