Medical Students

This week, 4 of the medical students that have been working here left to go on a trip to a national park.  However, we've been joined by another student, Binto, a Cameroonian medical student. 

There is one medical school in the country of Cameroon which is based out of Yaounde.  The school is, I am told, similar to European medical schools in that they are 6 year programs and students can enroll directly out of high school.  I believe they have 4 years of basic science classes and 2 years of clinical rotations.  They are required to do at least three months of their clinical training at a "rural" site, which is why Binto is working at the Protestant Hospital in N'gaoundere with us.  She is in her 5th year at medical school; her first year of clinical rotations.

She has been a lot of fun to work with and talk to during our time in the hospital.  It is interesting to get her perspective on certain things: e.g. she is very impressed by the conditions of the Protestant Hospital and thinks it is one of the nicer hospitals she has been to.  When I told her there are about 8 medical schools in Chicago, she was astonished and could hardly believe there were so many medical schools in one city.  She also enjoys working with Dr. Brown as much as we do and is very enthusiastic about learning (proving she is not quite in her last year of school!).