My University of Michigan Experience

By: Ethel Osei-Tutu, medical student, University of Cape Coast, School of Medical Sciences, Ghana Editor’s Note: For more information on the Ghana–Michigan medical student exchange program, see “Perceptions of Ghanaian Medical Students Completing a Clinical Elective at the University of Michigan Medical School” by Abedini, Danso-Bamfo, and colleagues, published in the July issue.  The University of Cape Coast, School of Medical Sciences (UCCSMS) began a yearly exchange program with the University of Michigan (UMich) in 2012. Four final-year students from UCCSMS are selected each year based on merit to participate in the month-long clinical electives program. In 2013, I had the opportunity to spend a month in Ann Arbor, Michigan. I gladly accepted the offer because of my passion for obstetrics and gynecology and my zeal to learn from other cultures. I was hoping to experience firsthand some of the things I learned during my obstetrics and gynecology rotation that remained abstract because they were not practiced in my hospital (Cape Coast Teaching Hospital). My clinical electives program at UMich was in the obstetrics and gynecology department in August 2013. During this period, I did rotations in various subspecialties–labor and delivery, maternal and fetal medicine, and gynecological oncology. University of Michigan simulation lab session Unlike my hospital, most of the surgeries I observed at UMich were laparoscopic. The most exciting one I...
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