Engaging Yam Farmers
OUTREACH IN MEDICINE
The Biotechnology Centre in collaboration with a team of farmers in Harker’s Hall, St Catherine and endorsed by the St Catherine 4-H Clubs, initiated a programme to reach yam farmers. Named The Yam Youth Farmers Training Programme, it brings together academics, young and old yam farmers, and agriculture educators. This collaboration has produced several firsts, including D. trifida true seeds being germinated in vitro. Several field-farmer training days and presentations occurred.
Inter-professional education
These Outreaches support underserved patient care populations across Jamaica and educate healthcare units on the roles served by students, and the responsibilities of patient care.
The Faculty of Medical Sciences (FMS) continued to be involved in outreach projects and inter-professional education. These outreach activities benefitted needy communities across Jamaica. FMS’s outreach committee involved students of the Faculty to stage several successful outreaches. The inter- professional outreaches have been the most visible outcome of the committee’s work. These Outreaches support underserved patient care populations across Jamaica and educate healthcare units on the roles served by students, and the responsibilities of patient care. Areas of focus and student involvement for these Outreaches are medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, physical therapy, social work, public health, radiography, and research scientists. The committee organized four main Faculty Outreaches in 2022/2023, visiting the St Peter’s Anglican Church in Westmoreland, Walkerswood Academy in St Ann, Christian Life Fellowship Church in St Andrew, and Tarrant Primary & Junior High School in Kingston. The number of patients seen ranged from a low of 40 to a high of 70. During the academic year, the committee was invited to an Outreach at the Randolph Lopez School of Hope where patients from the Jamaica Association of Intellectual Disabilities were seen. The committee has been asked to consider adding this location to the existing four annual Outreach locations.
An Outreach group from the Faculty of Medical Sciences
65 UWI MONA ANNUAL REPORT 2022/2023
64 UWI MONA ANNUAL REPORT 2022/2023
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