Meet 4 UDS School of Medicine students who are in the US for “Medical Elective Clerkship” at the New York University
The clerkship is part of a larger program of collaboration and exchange between NYUGSOM in New York and UDS and TTH
On Saturday, 23rd September 2023, I met four students of the University for Development Studies (UDS) School of Medicine, who are in New York City, United States of America, for a medical elective clerkship at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine (NYUGSOM).
The four brilliant students: Emmanuel Sabi Damoah, Ambrose Amoah Frimpong, Ayisha Sulemana, and Mildred Gifty Obeyaa Marfo, began their exchange programme on 4 September 2023 and they are expected to end same on 21 October, 2023.
The clerkship is part of a larger program of collaboration and exchange between NYUGSOM in New York and UDS School of Medicine and Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH) in Tamale, Ghana, known as Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH) Ghana.
The purpose of AMPATH Ghana is to strengthen health systems and tackle health disparities, train future global health leaders, and foster healthcare innovations to improve health worldwide. The program fosters exchange, education, capacity building, and research opportunities for Ghanaian and American medical students, residents, and faculty.
The clerkship was designed for Ghanaian medical students to gain exposure to high-resource health systems and enhance knowledge of diagnostic tests and clinical decision-making by providing care in a high-resource environment. It is also designed to help medical students develop skills in effective cross-cultural communication with patients and colleagues alike.
During their seven-weeks stay at NYUGSOM, the four UDS students will attend lectures, seminars and observe practices in the clinical setting in order to gain exposure to the American medical system, with rotations in the specialties of psychiatry, neurosurgery, general surgery, internal medicine among others.
In our one-hour interaction at our meeting place on East 34th Street in Manhattan, I urged the medical students to acquire all the knowledge and experience they can and to endeavor to share their experiences and knowledge with their colleagues back home when they are back to Ghana.
I also encouraged them to see themselves as persons and future medical practitioners in Ghana who will bring the much-needed change in the nation’s medical space.
After my interaction with Emmanuel Sabi Damoah, Ambrose Amoah Frimpong, Ayisha Sulemana, and Mildred Gifty Obeyaa Marfo, I left their company fully persuaded that they will return to the motherland and become change agents in the country’s medical sector.
Reporting by Wilberforce Asare in Accra
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