Ugandan medical students will get handheld computers to have access to more current medical information and techniques.

Information Technology for Uganda Medical Students

Summary

Enrich medical education by providing students with virtual libraries of information on handheld computers to complement current training and for field use upon graduation. progress report read updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Access to current and reliable health information is impeded in Africa due to poor infrastructures and the high costs of Internet access, medical textbooks, and journal subscriptions. By supplying students at Makerere University School of Medicine with handheld computers, also known as PDAs, we are providing them with reference tools and drug databases that may be used during their studies and when treating patients in areas with no other access to lifesaving information.

Activities

SATELLIFE will ship 700 donated PDAs loaded with reliable, relevant, and useful medical software with the goal of providing every medical student graduating from Makerere University with a working device.

Funding Information

This project has been retired and is no longer accepting donations.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

As practicing physicians, the PDA recipients will use their devices to access patient records, drug databases, treatment guidelines, medical dictionaries, and continuing education materials without leaving their patients for extended periods of time.

Project Message

"The best gift you have given me is the PDA. Everything I need in my practice is here!"
- Dr. Patrick Okello, Project Manager, Uganda Health Information Network

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Berhane Gebru,
Director of Programs
30 California Street
Watertown, MA 02472
United States
(617) 926-9400
Email:

Project Sponsor

The Tech Awards

Organisation

AED-SATELLIFE
30 California Street
Watertown, MA 2472
United States
617 926 9400
http://www.healthnet.org

Learn more about AED-SATELLIFE and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Uganda and can also be found under Technology.

For more information about Uganda, read the Human Development Report on Uganda or the Wikipedia entry for Uganda.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on July 23, 2010.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on November 01, 2005.

Latest Update from the Field

Update from Uganda

By Andrew Sideman - Director of Development, August 10, 2007 05:06 PM

The donations of PDAs to Ugandan medical students continues. We are asking for support to refurbish the PDAs, purchase and install a medical dictionary, and ship them to Uganda. The Makerere University Faculty of Medicine hopes that all medical students will have these tools. So far, through the generosity of donors, AED-SATELLIFE has provided Ugandan doctors in training with over 2,000 PDAs.

Thanks for your support!

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