The Medical Training and Fellowship (METAF) Programme is a partnership with the British Council aimed at reducing the burden of cancer and neurological disorders across East Africa. METAF is sponsored by the East African Development Bank (EADB).
The Medical Training and Fellowship (METAF) Programme is a partnership with the British Council aimed at reducing the burden of cancer and neurological disorders across East Africa. METAF is sponsored by the East African Development Bank (EADB).
The programme covered short clinical courses across Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda delivered by RCP expert physicians alongside senior faculty based across East Africa. Through the delivery of clinical training courses, participants were equipped to better diagnose and manage their patients with common neurological disorders or undertake acute triage of cancer presentation and to manage urgent symptoms of cancer within district/regional hospitals.
The project was developed and supported by specialist physicians in East Africa alongside volunteer teaching faculty from the RCP membership in the United Kingdom and abroad.
The project's final clinical training course concluded in December 2019, in Gulu, Uganda.
METAF in numbers
Since the launch of the programme in 2016:
- 27 clinical training activities have been delivered across East Africa
- 5 oncology training of trainers (ToT) workshops
- 12 oncology cascaded training course
- 10 neurology clinical training courses
- 550 doctors from four countries across East Africa upskilled in the diagnosis, treatment and management of cancer and neurological disorders
- 58 oncology ‘trainers’ upskilled to teach and share experience with other health workers at lower health facilities
- Over 5,000 healthcare professionals estimated to have benefited from the trainings through mentoring by course participants at home facilities
- Multiple networks of doctors established to strengthen the referral pathways and peer support