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Medical Mission in Sudan - Life as a Junior Doctor

2019-04-16 · Vlog or day in the life · Ali · recording, 5:22 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Medicine and his doctor years · mode: Demonstration and walkthrough

In an episode of his Life as a Junior Doctor vlog, Ali shows the medical mission trip he and a group of Cambridge doctors made to Sudan earlier in 2019: with Sudanese doctors and Khartoum University medical students they ran six village clinics in northern Sudan, treating hundreds of patients and teaching the students.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Arrival in Khartoum, the host family, and supplies at Khartoum University Medical School

  • ★★★ Earlier in 2019 Ali and a group of doctors from Cambridge went to Sudan on a medical mission trip and, with Sudanese doctors, healthcare professionals and Khartoum University medical students, set up six clinics in villages of northern Sudan. — 00:00:00 · Cambridge
  • ★ The Sudan mission's boxes of drugs, syringes and other supplies came from different companies, which also gave it financial support. — 00:00:29

00:00:58 — The drive north and the first clinic day in Village Five: how the patient flow works

  • ★★ For the Sudan mission Ali's group joined 75 medical students and 20 doctors, lab technicians and pharmacists on a bus 500 kilometres north to Meroe (as heard), eight hours through the desert. — 00:00:58
  • ★★ On the first clinic day of the Sudan mission the group split into three teams of 25 medical students with a few doctors and lab technicians; Ali's team set up a clinic in the primary school of Village Five, where the students saw every patient under the doctors' oversight. — 00:01:27
  • ★★ In the Sudan mission clinics, doctors and fourth-year medical students triage each patient with a quick history and vital signs, then send them to clinic rooms for a full history and examination; patients needing only reassurance and pain relief get it from the pharmacy. — 00:01:57
  • ★★ Patients of the Sudan mission clinics who need investigations go to its haematology and biochemistry lab for tests such as a full blood count, urea and electrolytes, urinalysis and faecal analysis, then return to the clinic. — 00:02:26
  • ★★★ Ali calls the Sudan mission's setup pretty great: the students see patients in Arabic and present each case to a doctor who checks the plan, giving cost-effective care to people who rarely see doctors while training the students' clinical reasoning and examination skills. — 00:02:26
  • ★ At the Village Five school the team got out the drone and let the local schoolchildren play with it. — 00:02:55

00:03:20 — The second clinic day in Al-Baghit, teaching the students, and the debrief

  • ★★ On the second clinic day of the Sudan mission, in the village of Al-Baghit (as heard), there were fewer patients, so Ali's team taught the medical students the cardiovascular, cranial nerve and knee examinations. — 00:03:20
  • ★ The people of Al-Baghit (as heard) cooked for the Sudan mission team, including sheep intestines. — 00:03:20

00:04:19 — Lectures on the final day and what the five days achieved

  • ★★ On the last day of the Sudan mission the doctors lectured the medical students on research methods in medicine and on how to prepare for exams such as the postgraduate MRCP. — 00:04:19 · MRCP
  • ★★★ Over the five days of the Sudan mission the team saw and treated hundreds of patients who would otherwise have had very limited access to healthcare, and made friends with the pharmacists, technicians, medical students and doctors they worked with. — 00:04:19

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Central: Sudan

Also: Cambridge · Khartoum University · MRCP

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