In January 2008 connectivity between the Research and Education Communities in Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa was established with a 1 Gbps between the UbuntuNet Alliance and GÉANT.
IRCAD (Professeur Jacques MARESCAUX, Strasbourg) France Hôpital Saint-Pierre (Professeur Guy-Bernard CADIERE, Bruxelles) Belgique Hôpital Rangueil (Professeur Gilles FOURTANIER, Toulouse) France Coopération Technique Belge Belgique
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Objectives and short summary of activities
I am carrying out two activities in the area of e-learning. The first, I began in 2001, was to train the residents who attend the program of general surgery (of which I am the Director in the School of Medicine in Dakar) in video surgery. This surgical procedure was set up in late Eighties and the few experts were Europeans who used to teach their techniques in northern countries. My challenge was to virtually bring them in my operating rooms and classrooms for telementoring and teaching. I achieved this project through ISDN technology. I am carrying out a second project of e-learning and tele expertise in two rural hospitals in the middle west of Sénégal. Surgical staff (nurses) is taught via the Internet using simplified devices for videoconference. Surgeons who practice in these hospitals are used to participate in staff meeting of the university hospital in Dakar. By the way, we are developing processes for teleexpertise: it will be possible for an ordinary technician to send images and question the Radiologists in University hospital.
Target/Beneficiary community
Technology used, standards and services employed
Videoconference via ISDN and Internet.
Research activities carried and out and scientific data generated
Principal outcomes and documentation (plus link to case studies)
Téléenseignement et téléformation. Solutions technologiques. Télémédecine et téléenseignement au Sénégal. Touré CT. Conférences aux Premiers Etats Généraux de la Drépanocytose au Monde. Brazzaville (Congo). 14-17 Juin 2005.
Téléenseignement et téléformation en chirurgie. Touré CT. Conférence au Congrès e-Learning Africa. Dakar, 27-29 Mai 2009.
Traitement à distance. Zemmouri T. Jeune Afrique-L’Intelligent (Paris) ; Numéros 2222-2223 ; 10-23 Août 2003 : pages122-123.
Interview data 1. Hôpital Le Dantec. La Clinique Chirurgicale se lance dans la télémédecine. Journal « Le Soleil » (Sénégal) ; 22 Juillet 2001 ; Numéro 9342. 2. Traitement à distance. Zemmouri T. Journal « Jeune Afrique-L’Intelligent » (Paris) ; Numéros 2222-2223 ; 10-23 Août 2003 : pages 122-123. 3. Formation à distance par la télémédecine. Un rêve devenu réalité à Kaffrine. Ba NG. Journal « Le Soleil » (Sénégal) ; 15 Juin 2009 ; Numéro 11711. 4. Le contexte sénégalais permet la pratique de la télémédecine. Niang I. Journal « Walfadjri » (Sénégal) ; 29 Mars 2010 ; Numéro 5407. 5. Télémédecine. Le contexte favorable, selon le Pr Cheikh Tidiane Touré. Kaly E. Journal « Le Soleil » (Sénégal) ; 29 Mars 2010 ; Numéro 11951. 6. Télé-enseignement et télé-formation en chirurgie. Touré CT. Journal « Interface » (Université Cheikh Anta Diop-Dakar. Sénégal) ; Août 2010 ; Numéro 10 : pages 15-16.
Other potential application areas/ actual spillovers
Right now, the Government of Sénégal is developing a network to connect all the hospitals of the country for carrying datas and for other appliances in health area. I am developing two web-sites. The first is intended to host all courses in surgery for students who attend the school of medicine in Dakar. The second web-site I am building is for the “Association Sénégalaise de Chirurgie” (Senegalese Surgical Association; of which I am the President): it will serve as yearbook, an information source and an educational tool for the members. These web-sites are planned to be operational in these next six months.