Improving health equity through sustained academic partnership: development of a maternal-fetal medicine fellowship training program in Western Kenya
Nding'ori, David Spitzer, Rachel F Songok, Julia Buitendyk, Marie Mishra, Pallavi Kosgei, Wycliffe Kipchumba, Bett Kakuti, Mutindi Tonui, Philip Fung-Kee-Fung, Karen
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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.
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Nding'ori D, Spitzer RF, Songok J, Buitendyk M, Mishra P, Kosgei W, Kipchumba B, Kakuti M, Tonui P, Fung-Kee-Fung K, Leftwich H, Gardner A, Nyongesa P, Okun N. Improving health equity through sustained academic partnership: development of a maternal-fetal medicine fellowship training program in Western Kenya. AJOG Glob Rep. 2024 Jun 14;4(3):100362. doi: 10.1016/j.xagr.2024.100362. PMID: 39072337; PMCID: PMC11278782.