off to Butare

The anesthesia residents at academic day. They are great guys!

Shannon and I continue to enjoy academic day on Monday. The residents are keen to learn and very involved. We keep our sessions highly interactive and try to connect as often as possible to cases. There is always one presentation each week by one of the local residents. The quality continues to improve and they are also much more comfortable with English.

Our morning report is also going well. We are making that very interactive, as well, and use this as an opportunity to teach the nurse anesthetists (techs).

We are encouraging the residents to communicate with the team and to develop leadership skills. There is definite progress but still much more to be done.

We will leave for Butare in a few minutes and will be there until Friday. We are planning to spend Friday night in Nyungwe forest and hike on Saturday. Butare will be good as we will have a chance to work with the three new residents.