Project Name: Higher Education Enhancement Project
Partner: University of Guyana
GGI Priority Area: Health
Target Beneficiaries: Staff and Students of the University
Region: 4
Duration: 2 Years
Purpose: To enhance the teaching capacity of the University’s Medical College and its delivery of services and practice to staff, students, and communities around Guyana.
Outputs:
Since its implementation, the Higher Education Enhancement Project has sought to:
i) Build and improve training with the Medical Sciences Laboratories.
ii) Provide necessary support mechanisms for staff and students through counselling to ensure they can strive in an institution of higher learning and contribute meaningfully to society.
iii) Increase the capacity for students to perform more clinical practice, develop better skills and student uptake in the School of Dentistry.
iv) Provide a fully equipped and functional Skills Lab to aid in the training of healthcare professionals.
Anticipated Impacts:
- Strengthened emergency response, travel protocol, and health policies to address and understand the natural history of pathogens.
- Increase the intake capacity of students undertaking dental studies.
- Build the capacity of students to perform more clinical practice and develop better skills.
- Better trained health practitioners – helping to improve Guyana’s healthcare system.
Website Link: https://www.uog.edu.gy/
