- December 17, 2019
Yale’s Tanzania Interventional Radiology Initiative Approved for MSc Program
- December 16, 2019
An Interventional Radiology Medical Mission to Tanzania Opens the Door to a Self-sustaining Training Program
- December 15, 2019
Radiology Outreach Programs Address Urgent Needs Around the Globe
- December 12, 2019
A firsthand account of traveling to Tanzania, East Africa
- October 23, 2019Source: Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology
Tanzania IR Initiative: Training the First Generation of Interventional Radiologists
- December 19, 2018
Learn about the Tanzania Interventional Radiology Program, and how you can help
- December 02, 2018
Yale Establishes Tanzania Interventional Radiology Initiative
- October 15, 2018Source: IR in Global Health: An Opportunity to Expand Efforts
IR in Global Health: An Opportunity to Expand Efforts
- July 17, 2018
Yale’s Minja bringing interventional radiology training to Tanzania
Your Generous Support Helps us to Achieve our Goals
Frank Minja, MD
Outreach Program Director
The Global Outreach Program’s Tanzania Interventional Radiology Program is providing a new model for global medical outreach. Tanzania’s main medical academic teaching center, the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) in Dar es Salaam, now offers a master’s of science (MSc) degree in interventional radiology (IR).
“This is a big change and a big deal because it’s a departure from most global outreach programs, which are usually a one-off,” said Minja, the director of Global Outreach for the Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging at Yale School of Medicine (YSM). “With training, people gain skills but not credentials. The two-year MSc provides visiting faculty with a set curriculum.”
From October 2018 to October 2019, 12 teams and 53 volunteers traveled to Tanzania in teams of three to five people on a two-week schedule to provide hands-on training to radiology residents, nurses and technologists.
Many thanks for your generous online donations, which funded flights and housing for our volunteers. Our program accomplished many significant milestones this year!
As soon as our training program was approved for a two-year MSc Interventional Radiology degree program at MUHAS, we enrolled our first three MSc IR students. Our teams have successfully performed 250+ IR procedures together with our IR trainees in Tanzania, and our first paper was just published in the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology.
As we fundraise to support our 2020 teams, we would be most grateful for your tax-deductible support again this year. Please give generously today!
Asante sana! (Thank you so much!)