Uganda

Mulago Hospital
Makerere University
Internal Medicine

An affiliation between Yale School of Medicine and Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, was established to place Yale attendings and residents at Mulago Hospital throughout the year. This is a bilateral exchange program includes Ugandan students and faculty also spending time on the Yale campus.

Students, who are funded through grants from the Office of Global Health Education, will observe on several inpatient clinical services at the hospital. The hospital is under-resourced, routine tests and procedures that would be available at Yale may not be able to be provided at Mulago hospital. The Ugandan physicians utilize history and physical exam skills to establish diagnoses and follow patient progress. Physical exam rounds by expert clinicians will help Yale students hone their own physical exam skills.

Medical students who do a clinical elective at Mulago will learn about the effects of the HIV epidemic on the Ugandan population. Many of the patients hospitalized at Mulago Hospital will have quite advanced presentation of illness, students should prepare themselves for the experience of the possibility of the higher mortality rate.

Language, history and cultural experiences will be provided through faculty lectures and interactions with the students. Students frequently utilize weekends to travel to other parts of the country. Rotations in Uganda are 6 weeks.

• John Andrews

• Kelsey Rankin

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• Hadley Bloomhardt

• Carla Lopez
• Azim Munivar
• Ava Yap

• Duncan Reid
• Minhee Sung
• Kathleen Yan
• Bianca Yuh

• Thomas Gilliland
• Sarah Jin
• Rabeea Khan