Psychiatric Bulletin (2001) 25: 40. doi: 10.1192/pb.25.1.40
© 2001 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
Psychiatric Bulletin (2001) 25: 40
© 2001 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
A request from Professor Stafford Lightman
Over the past year or so I have been helping set up a postgraduate
M.Med programme at the University of Mbarara in Uganda. This is an extremely
interesting medical school as it is set up as a community-based medical
school, which is extremely appropriate for the medical problems of this part
of the world. One of the areas that has been a great success has been in
transcultural psychiatry. There was an extremely good Dutch psychiatrist who,
among other things, formed an extremely close association with the traditional
healers in the area and also set up some very good training programmes for
people dealing with victims of African disasters. This lady has now had to go
back to Holland...I feel that there is an enormous opportunity for working at
Mbarara and I suspect there must be people who would be enthusiastic about the
opportunity of going there.
If there is any psychiatrist who would like to take on this very
interesting challenge please contact Professor S. Lightman, University of
Bristol, University Research Centre for Neuroendocrinology, Dorothy Crowfoot
Hodgkin Laboratories, Bristol Royal Infirmary, Marlborough Street, Bristol BS2
8HW.