The "IU House"
Program participants live in the "IU House," a compound consisting of six different houses. Participants work at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret and in numerous urban and rural health centers covering a population of several million persons. The Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital serves the indigent population of Eldoret and a referral population of nearly 13 million persons in northern and western Kenya.
Student, Resident and Faculty Exchange
The IU-Kenya Partnership promotes bilateral exchange of students, post-graduate trainees, and faculty members. Since 1990, over 190 medical residents at IU have taken elective rotations in Kenya. Virtually all of these residents have rated their elective in Kenya as the premier experience of their residency training. While at Moi University, their responsibilities include patient care, teaching and clinical research activities.
More than 180 senior students from IU have taken clinical electives at MUSM. A two month-long summer ambassadorship for freshman medical students was initiated in 1995 that enables two to four IUSM students to travel to Kenya each summer to take classes, participate in community-based projects and service, round in the hospital, and live with their Kenyan counterparts in the dorms.
Together with the other institutions in the ASANTE consortium, Indiana University has sponsored, and hosted 14 Kenyan medical students each year for 2-month electives in the US. Many of the faculty members at MUSM have also visited Indiana University for the purpose of training, collaborative research, and program development.
Read stories of experiences from students and residents in Kenya.
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