Clinical Education

Clinical Trainings

Through clinical education, PIH is providing ongoing mentorship and training programs for health care professionals, enhancing their skills in areas such as maternal health, surgery, and emergency care. Hosting residents and interns at Koidu Government Hospital (KGH) for their rotations means fostering a new generation of skilled workers capable of delivering high-quality care in a rural setting. Nursing mentors participate in mentorship training and emergency training programs teach clinicians essential skills to provide emergency and critical care services. This includes both classroom teaching and simulation exercises, bridging the education gap in formal emergency care training for nurses in Sierra Leone. Further training includes topics such as orientations, blood sample collection and transportation, and patient triage.

Residents

Since KGH’s accreditation as a rural teaching hospital by the West African College of Surgeons in 2022, the institution has hosted both local and international residents. In 2024, KGH hosted the largest number of residents at the same time from the University of Sierra Leone Teaching Hospitals Complex (USLTHC), including three from general surgery, two from OBYGN, one from anesthesia, two in the psychiatry program, and one from family medicine. Five Senior House Officers are completing their provincial rotations at KGH. These medical doctors have graduated and completed a one-year internship in the capital before coming to the rural hospital in Kono district. Different groups of nurses also completed their rotations at KGH, including diploma and Bachelor of Science nurses. Further, KGH hosted 13 interns from two universities in the country at the medical laboratory. The PIH-supported Bachelor of Science in Clinical Medicine started in 2017 at the School of Clinical Science in Makeni, Sierra Leone. In 2025, the first cohort of BSc candidates finish their internship, and the other three cohorts receive their training in KGH.