Implementing the Trauma Evaluation and Management (TEAM) Course in Kenya

Trauma training provides crucial knowledge and skills for health-care providers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Although such training has been adapted for physicians and emergency personnel in LMICs, few courses have been offered for medical students. The Trauma Evaluation and Manageme...

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Published in:The Journal of surgical research 2018-12, Vol.232, p.107-112
Main Authors: Hill, Katherine A., Johnson, Erica D., Lutomia, Mark, Puyana, Juan C., Lee, Kenneth K., Oduor, Peter R., MacLeod, Jana B.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Education, Medical
Educational Measurement
Female
Global health education
Global surgery
Humans
Kenya
Male
Surgical education
Trauma training
Traumatology - education
Undergraduate medical education
Wounds and Injuries - diagnosis
Wounds and Injuries - therapy
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Summary:Trauma training provides crucial knowledge and skills for health-care providers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Although such training has been adapted for physicians and emergency personnel in LMICs, few courses have been offered for medical students. The Trauma Evaluation and Management (TEAM) course, developed by the American College of Surgeons, provides a valuable framework for providing this content to medical students in an LMIC-context. We implemented the TEAM course at a single medical school in rural Kenya, for final-year medical students, utilizing the multimodal instruction and reference materials provided by the American College of Surgeons. We administered precourse and postcourse assessments, adapted the content for particular low-resource considerations, expanded the course to 2 d, and utilized a multidisciplinary and multinational group of surgical expert instructors. The entire final-year medical school class participated, and all completed pretesting and posttesting (100%, n = 61). Posttesting revealed significant improvement (P 
ISSN:0022-4804
1095-8673
DOI:10.1016/j.jss.2018.05.066