Support for medical faculties abroad
Curriculum development with the University of Dschang, Cameroon
The Faculty of Medicine is supporting the University of Dschang in setting up a medical faculty and implementing the Human Medicine and Public Health degree programs. In addition to the structural and organizational planning, the Faculty will provide advice and active support, particularly on the theoretical development and practical implementation of a curriculum for both courses. The origin of the project was a delegation visit by the Rector as part of a joint summer school in Cologne in 2017. In 2019, a delegation consisting of representatives from the Faculty of Medicine, the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and the DAAD traveled together to the University of Dschang in Cameroon.
Visit of the Cameroonian delegation to Cologne 2017
Curriculum development with the All India Institute of Medical Science and Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan
Since 2017, the Faculty of Medicine has been advising and supporting both universities in restructuring their curricula along the lines of the Cologne model degree program in human medicine. These projects focus in particular on the skills lab, but also on other teaching content and structures of the Cologne course.
Capacity Development in Kamerun
Dschang ist irgendwo im Nirgendwo, eine vergleichsweise kleine Stadt jenseits der großen urbanen Hotspots im Hochland Westkameruns, im französischsprachigen Teil des Landes, auf einer Höhe von 1380 m. Die Medizinische Fakultät der Universität zu Köln leistet hier gezielt Capacity Development: Mit einem Kameruner als Botschafter, PD Dr. Filomain Nguemo, der in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten in Köln eine Bilderbuch-Karriere als Stammzellfoscher realisiert hat und als Group Leader der Elektrophysiologie am Zentrum für Physiologie und Pathophysiologie der Medizinischen Fakultät der Universität zu Köln arbeitet.
Beitrag im Uni-Magazin 22/September 2020 (Seite 44)