Botswana - Emergency Medicine (EM) residency programme

The IGEC has partnered with the University of Botswana and the Princess Marina Hospital in Gaborone to create a specialist residency training programme, assist with educational content development, and provide on-going consultation. 
Partner: University of Botswana

Cameroon - Emergency care training programme

​The IGEC has partnered with the Cameroon Ministry of Health, Yaoundé I University and KOICA (the South Korean Development Agency) to develop emergency systems in Cameroon. The Institute intends to provide educational curricula specifically for one year diploma courses. 
Partner: Cameroon Ministry of Health, Yaoundé University & KOICA

Djibouti - EM graduate programme 

The IGEC intends to run a 1-year Master’s program in clinical emergency care in Djibouti from 2016. IGEC and AFEM will assist with the initial training in Djibouti. 
Partner: Djibouti Ministry of Education

Egypt - EM diploma programme

The IGEC is designing a 1-year Diploma program in emergency care for Egyptian healthcare providers. This programme will be credentialed in Egypt and allow for career progression for non-speciality trainees. Additionally, the Egyptian Society for Emergency Medicine will be hosting the third African Conference on Emergency Medicine in Cairo from 9-11 November 2016. 
Partner: Egyptian Society for Emergency Medicine & several Egyptian university programmes

Ethiopia - Professional society development & EM residency programme 

The IGEC helped establish, and continues to assist with, the runnings of the Ethiopian Society of Emergency Medicine Professionals. In 2014, ESEMP collaborated with AFEM to host the second African Conference on Emergency Medicine.  Additionally, IGEC helped Addis Ababa University in developing their emergency medicine residency. 
Partner: Ethiopian Society of Emergency Medicine Professionals

Kenya - EM diploma programme

The IGEC has collaborated with the Kenyan Medical Training College to design their Diploma programme in emergency care, utilising the AFEM curriculum and assessment strategy. 
Partner: Kenyan Medical Training College

Malawi - EM residency programme 

The IGEC has been working with the leaders in emergency care in Malawi to develop their system, and provides educational consultation on their young emergency medicine residency program at the University of Malawi. 
Partner: University of Malawi

​Nigeria - Emergency care training programme

​Nigeria’s professional emergency medicine society, the Society for Emergency Medicine Practitioners of Nigeria, has asked the IGEC to assist with a project that will train all healthcare workers at 60 referral hospitals in the basics of emergency care. This will be full cost recovery.
Partner: Society of Emergency Medicine Practitioners of Nigeria (SEMPON)

Sudan - EM residency programme 

The IGEC is working with the emergency care leads in Sudan to improve their existing, fledgling emergency medicine residency program at the University of Khartoum. The IGEC is the main partner on this new initiative and aims to use AFEM- and IGEC-developed training materials, such as the AFEM curriculum and rapid assessment protocols. Khartoum based training visits plan to commence in 2016. 
Partner: Omdurman University

Tanzania - EM residency programme 

The IGEC has a longstanding collaboration with the Emergency Medicine Department of Muhimbili University National Hospital as the site of the first full pilot implementation of the AFEM curriculum. IGEC provides trainers on the ground in addition to remote expert inputs. 
Partner: Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences.

Tanzania & Uganda- Emergency Care Outcomes Project

The IGEC has implemented a first-of-its-kind project to address the high burden of morbidity and mortality due to acute illness and injury in Sub‐Saharan Africa. Currently, an evaluation of pre-intervention process and outcome indicators is occurring at 4 sites in Uganda and Tanzania. In the coming year, the IGEC intends to sequentially implement a dedicated emergency care intervention package, allowing for simultaneous comparison of a standard set of metrics for clinical impact evaluation across all 4 sites. 
Partners: Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences & Makerere University College of Health Sciences

Uganda - National emergency care development strategy & residency programme 

The IGEC has been working with the Ugandan Ministry of Health to design a national strategic plan for facility-based emergency care. In addition, the Institute is formally partnered with Makerere University to oversee the first emergency residency programme in Uganda, and is providing the educational curriculum as well as faculty. The pre-residency curriculum is underway and has included formal didactic teaching for medical students, non-emergency medicine residents, and non-specialist doctors. 
Partners: Uganda Ministry of Health & Makerere University

Zambia - Educational courses & EM residency programme

The IGEC partnered with the Zambian Defence Force and Ministry of Health to conduct a training course on education for healthcare providers in Zambia. These providers were taught the basics of emergency care as well as the fundamentals of educational strategy. They then partnered with the IGEC to design curricula for training of Zambian community members and ZDF military personnel. In addition, the IGEC is working with the Ministry and the University of Zambia to design a specialist residency training program, and aims to provide the curriculum and assessment tools as well as faculty from late 2016. 
Partner: Zambia Ministry of Health; Zambia Defence Force; University of Zambia