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Local Community Outreach
- The Ambulance ride-along experience, a student highlight, was added to the many engagement opportunities. Students get the opportunity to go out on ambulance calls with the EMT and observe and participate in the experience of patient stabilization being transported to the Emergency room.
- More than 3800 primary school students in ten primary schools were sensitized to the new Barbados School Nutrition Policy as a part of a collaboration with the Ministry of Education and several other organizations.
- Collaboration made with Rotary West in Barbados for an ongoing school-based hearing screening project for all children aged 7 to 8 in Barbados.
- More than 600 persons were screened for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in voluntary community outreach activities, including health awareness days such as World Hypertension, World Diabetes Day, and World Heart Day, in collaboration with civil society and faith-based organizations.
- 64 persons trained in childhood development and CPR under the Barbados Childcare Board, with participation from the Pediatric and Emergency Medicine student groups.
Community Outreach Impact
- RUSM successfully developed and delivered a curriculum for a Community Medicine certificate. This program began in January 2023. The establishment of this concentration will allow all MD graduating students who have completed the required coursework in all five semesters to receive a certificate in Community Medicine upon graduation.
- In June 2023, RUSM resumed its annual in-person research symposium. This year’s theme highlighted RUSM’s community connections and was called the “Connecting Community Through Research,” or CoRe, Symposium.
- OEA coordinated the student micro-symposium where students from Semesters 1, 4, and 5 confidently presented research ideas and completed work.
- Semester 3 Health Promotion: Twenty-seven community-based projects were curated by students who will continue to work on projects in subsequent semesters. Examples of such projects include providing a cognitively challenging space for nursing home residents, providing health literacy interventions in schools, and creating community gardens, among many others.
- The first group of CRC students had the opportunity to create research proposals. There were 6 proposals, and we anticipate
