Improving health equity through sustained academic partnership: development of a maternal-fetal medicine fellowship training program in Western Kenya

David Nding'ori, MMed; Rachel F. Spitzer, MD, MPH; Julia Songok, MMed; Marie Buitendyk, MD, MSc; Pallavi Mishra, MMed; Wycliffe Kosgei, MMed; Bett Kipchumba, MMed; Mutindi Kakuti, MMed; Philip Tonui, MMed; Karen Fung-Kee-Fung, MD, MHPE; Heidi Leftwich, DO; Adrian Gardner, MD, MPH; Paul Nyongesa, MMed; Nanette Okun, MD, MHsc

AJOG Global Reports (Aug 2024)

Improving health equity through sustained academic partnership: development of a maternal-fetal medicine fellowship training program in Western Kenya

David Nding'ori, MMed,
Rachel F. Spitzer, MD, MPH,
Julia Songok, MMed,
Marie Buitendyk, MD, MSc,
Pallavi Mishra, MMed,
Wycliffe Kosgei, MMed,
Bett Kipchumba, MMed,
Mutindi Kakuti, MMed,
Philip Tonui, MMed,
Karen Fung-Kee-Fung, MD, MHPE,
Heidi Leftwich, DO,
Adrian Gardner, MD, MPH,
Paul Nyongesa, MMed,
Nanette Okun, MD, MHsc

Affiliations

David Nding'ori, MMed: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kitale County Referral Hospital, Kitale, Kenya (Nding'ori)
Rachel F. Spitzer, MD, MPH: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto Canada, Toronto, Ontario (Spitzer)
Julia Songok, MMed: Department of Child health and Pediatrics, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya (Songok)
Marie Buitendyk, MD, MSc: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, St Joseph's Health Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (Buitendyk)
Pallavi Mishra, MMed: Department of Reproductive Health, Mediheal Group of Hospitals, Nairobi, Kenya (Pallavi)
Wycliffe Kosgei, MMed: Department of Reproductive Health, Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya (Kosgei, Kipchumba, Kakuti, Tonui, and Nyongesa)
Bett Kipchumba, MMed: Department of Reproductive Health, Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya (Kosgei, Kipchumba, Kakuti, Tonui, and Nyongesa)
Mutindi Kakuti, MMed: Department of Reproductive Health, Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya (Kosgei, Kipchumba, Kakuti, Tonui, and Nyongesa)
Philip Tonui, MMed: Department of Reproductive Health, Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya (Kosgei, Kipchumba, Kakuti, Tonui, and Nyongesa)
Karen Fung-Kee-Fung, MD, MHPE: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Ottawa Hospital, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada (Fung-Kee-Fung)
Heidi Leftwich, DO: University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School/UMass Memorial Health, Worcester, MA (Leftwich)
Adrian Gardner, MD, MPH: Center for Global Health, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN (Gardiner)
Paul Nyongesa, MMed: Department of Reproductive Health, Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya (Kosgei, Kipchumba, Kakuti, Tonui, and Nyongesa)
Nanette Okun, MD, MHsc: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (Okun); Corresponding author: Nanette Okun, MD, MHsc

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 4, no. 3
p. 100362

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Low- and middle-income countries are underresourced in subspecialist care. This study describes a unique maternal-fetal medicine clinical fellowship training program at Moi University School of Medicine and Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret, Western Kenya. The first of its kind in Eastern Africa, it has met with success in the retention of highly qualified practitioners providing complex pregnancy care to a population that has been heretofore underserved.

Published in AJOG Global Reports

ISSN: 2666-5778 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Gynecology and obstetrics
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/ajog-global-reports

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