Obstetrics-based clinical immersion of a multinational team of biomedical engineering students in Ghana

Kathleen H Sienko; Elsie Effah Kaufmann; Moses E Musaazi; Amir Sabet Sarvestani; Samuel Obed

doi:10.1016/j.ijgo.2014.06.012

Obstetrics-based clinical immersion of a multinational team of biomedical engineering students in Ghana

Int J Gynaecol Obstet. 2014 Nov;127(2):218-20. doi: 10.1016/j.ijgo.2014.06.012. Epub 2014 Jul 24.

Authors

Kathleen H Sienko¹, Elsie Effah Kaufmann², Moses E Musaazi³, Amir Sabet Sarvestani⁴, Samuel Obed⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA; Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. Electronic address: sienko@umich.edu.
² Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Ghana, Legon - Accra, Ghana.
³ Department of Electrical Engineering, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
⁴ Design Science Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.
⁵ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana.

PMID: 25135880
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijgo.2014.06.012

No abstract available

Keywords: Capacity building; Engineering education; Ghana; Implementation engineering; Low-resource countries; Maternal health; Medical device design.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Biomedical Engineering / education*
Ghana
Humans
International Educational Exchange*
Obstetrics / education
Obstetrics / instrumentation*
United States