Kassam, Faazil; Damji, Karim F. MD, MBA; Kiage, Dan MBChB, MMed; Carruthers, Chris MD, MBA; Kollmann, K.H Martin MBChB, MMed, MD, Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Medical Parasitology, MBA
Abstract
The struggle for developing nations to train and retain highly skilled clinicians within academic institutions has highlighted the need for creative approaches to subspecialty education in these regions. The Sandwich fellowship is an educational model in which a fellow completes rotations at an academic institution in the developed world as well as in his or her home environment. An important component of the model is the expansion of institutional capacity at the fellow’s home institution to create an enabling environment to practice newly acquired skills.
Successful pilots of a Sandwich fellowship took place in ophthalmology and orthopedic surgery at the University of Ottawa in 2007-2008.
Mr. Kassam is a second-year medical student, University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Dr. Damji is professor, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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