MORNING ACTIVITY
This morning I was very excited to visit with faculty from
Department of Pharmacy to witness Objective Structured Clinical Exams
(OSCEs). This was the first time that
these exams were conducted in their pharmacy program. The third year students were presented with
four cases in which they played the pharmacist and the faculty member was the patient. Students were tasked with taking a
history from the patient, determining the nature of the problem, making a diagnosis,
and either recommending a product for self-care treatment or referring the patient to a physician. The students were very gracious to agree to
let me listen in and I sat off to side so that I would not be in their direct
view. All of them did a great job given this was the first time that they participated in this type of assessment. Not easy!
Of course I was intrigued to see how these exams would be
conducted as we have been doing formal OSCEs at our school of pharmacy (UCSF) for
the past two years. The fundamentals are
basically the same and we now have an opportunity to share patient cases, assessment instruments, and methods to evaluate if the OSCE process is doing what we intend it to do.
EVENING ACTIVITY
Our evening activity was a Braii at the home of one of our
fellows Genesis. A Braii is the Malawi
version of a cook out or grilling of meat. The hospitality of Malawians is so warm and
generous. You truly feel at home and
that we are one big family. We are
blessed to be able to work with our Malawian colleagues. Our team from the US learn
just as much if not more about dealing with the challenges of life and working
in health care systems from our experiences in Malawi. It is all of our desires as health care providers to deliver
the best care we can to our patients. But
still sometimes the system(s) fall short and they are not everything we hope and
dream they should be for those we care for…
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| BRAII BEEF |
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| BRAII CHICKEN |
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