Scope of the project

This project has two complementary aims:

1. To expand the RAFT geographical coverage in two countries of West Africa: Togo and Ghana, and to deploy continuing education, tele-expertise and portable diagnostic devices to support care professionals active in remote facilities. This will be done using a method that has been developed and refined over the years and applied successfully in many other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The main goals are:

• to establish an operational team for the national coordination;
• to communicate about the project, and secure the buy-in and ownership of the health and education authorities;
• to deploy activities in at least two sites: a reference hospital in the capital, and a distant hospital;
• to demonstrate the added-value of the RAFT services and prepare the further deployment of the project in the country.

2. To bring the multi-disciplinary expertise of the OESO network to the strategic partnership with RAFT and share the whole package of information, communication, and learning with multi-disciplinary societies for a growing network of education in medicine linked to existing projects and international stake holders of cultural properties like the UNESCO and the WHO.

This will be materialized by:

• the establishment of an editorial board for contents, authors, and educational  strategies
• the various means of transfer of knowledge

– courses in various disciplines accessible on the  web,
– monthly discussions of didactic clinical cases,
– organization of webinars with linking of cases  and materials when appropriate,
– inclusion of content suitable to general practitioners and students​

• the organization of specialized missions in developing countries
• contribution to the development of dedicated centers in Africa
• exploration of further dissemination of the OESO method of information, communication and learning to suited partner societies with a promising vision to join the project.