Teaching and Learning.

-from Joanne

As we have mentioned, the UBC Student for Global Citizenship program includes both planned and spontaneous opportunities for exchanges of knowledge of expertise. In one moment I would be asking advice from a senior Ugandan midwife, in the next I was teaching a young nursing student who would then assist with the delivery and provide invaluable language help. Over our time here, Cathy and the other faculty had coordinated and delivered workshops for Ugandan staff in Masaka, Jinja, and Kampala. Some of the topics included: Postpartum hemorrhage, shoulder dystocia, neonatal resuscitation, antepartum hemorrhage, charting, delayed cord clamping, etc. As students we were also able to assist with teaching to hone our own knowledge and skills, and assist other learners.

Our placements here provided an abundance of opportunities to be both a teacher and a learner. With gratitude to all of those who contributed to our learning in Uganda, here’s some photos from a few of those moments.

Angela teaching breech delivery to midwives in Jinja. 

Cathy teaching Neonatal Resuscitation to rural midwives who had come to Masaka for training. 

Clare, medical anthropology student, helped staff midwives deliver a CME workshop at Masaka hospital on HIV Exposed Infants.

Cathy delivering workshop for midwives in Jinja.

Babil teaching an attentive nursing student in Masaka.

Cathy frequently facilitated our learning with her excellent sense of humour!

Lorna taught and supervised us in Masaka.

Cathy demonstrating maneuvers for shoulder dystocia at a workshop for midwives in Jinja.

Prossy, one of our amazing supervising midwives in Masaka, teaching Joanne counseling and medications for HIV+ mothers and newborns. 

 Quinn in Jinja : teaching a station on active management and postpartum hemmorhage.

Dr Mickey and Prossy, two of our instructors, keeping it light and fun!

Tanya teaching enthusiastic nursing students how to use a fetoscope and count fetal heart rates.

 Natalie delivered a presentation on Delayed Cord Clamping to a group in Jinja.

Tanya facilitating a station on 
Shoulder Dystocia in Jinja.

Participants estimating blood loss at our fake hemorrhage station.

Grace Jolly (right), a Ugandan midwife and trainer, teaching neonatal resuscitation to participants.