Christian Academy of African Physicians (CAAP)

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"Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the LORD Almighty.” Zechariah 4:6

 In March of this year, we invited a consultant team from the christian academy of African physicians to come to Soddo Christian Hospital to perform a feasibility study on starting a family medicine residency. You can read more about the organization here (https://www.caaphome.org/). 

 We toured all over Ethiopia meeting with representatives from the two other premier family medicine residency programs in Addis Ababa at Addis Ababa University and at St Pauls Millenium Medical College. We met with the federal ministry of health, and representatives from several other possible affiliate hospitals for this program. 

We learned from the MOH's National specialty roadmap that in the next 10 years Ethiopia wants to deploy over 5,000 family medicine physicians to their primary hospitals to be the consultant to the primary care physician. Most primary care hospitals currently do not have other medical specialists and the family medicine physician would function as a leader both in administration and clinical care at these hospitals to be able to provide improved access to local and quality holistic health care for the people of Ethiopia. 

This is a big task, with many more obstacles to overcome before we can start a program, but the doors are opening and we are walking through them. 

We are hoping to submit an application for accreditation this summer with the possibility of starting this winter if everything falls into place. 

We continue to pray for God's perfect timing for this program.

 

In this picture: Dr David Okiror (Liberia), Dr Sifora Fanta (SCH, Ethiopia), Dr Bruce Dahlman (Kenya), Cr Greg Kirschner (Nigeria and Chicago mentoring my good friend Liz Redican), Geoffrey Wechuli (Kenya), me

The CAAP team meeting with the current general practitioners at SCH to tell them about the role of the family medicine physician

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