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GLOBAL HEALTH
Seeing Post Graduate Training
in Anesthesiology in Guyana
with New Eyes
Reema Sanghvi, MD
R
ecently, I had the good fortune of returning to
Guyana after a three-year absence occasioned
by Covid-19. Accompanying me were two
residents from the University of California, San Diego,
with varying degrees of pre-trip exposure to global
health. I conducted debrief interviews with them and
offer their different perspectives below.
Joelle Takahashi, CA-3, had previous global health
experience doing research in Kenya. She loved this trip to
Guyana because it was well organized and built on long
standing relationships in the country. She appreciated
seeing the six different peoples of Guyana (Amerindians,
Europeans, Africans, Indians, Portuguese, and Chinese)
coexisting peacefully and respectfully, and loved seeing
that the diversity in health care workers reflected the
diversity in the population. Guyana, with British colonial
history, is located between Venezuela and Surinam (a
former Dutch colony) in South America and identifies
strongly with neighboring Caribbean islands of Trinidad
and Barbados. Whenever there was a Spanish speaking
patient there was always someone on the treatment
team who was proficient in Spanish! She noticed that the
Guyanese residents were scheduled for a half day a week
of academic time, much more time than at her home
institution (UCSD). They were thirsty for knowledge, and
came prepared to the lecture, having read the paper
that was sent to them ahead of time, even though it was
Youlanda Hendricks, the first graduate of the Anesthesiology
residency in Guyana
long and difficult and above their level of training. The
registrars functioned as junior faculty and were bedside
teachers in the OR as well as working on developing their
own skills in procedures like epidurals, arterial lines, and
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