COBES 2005 - Oh what fun!!

Since the beginning of Problem Based Learning (PBL) curriculum at the Faculty of Medicine at Makerere University in September 2003, Community Based Education Services (COBES) program has been implemented with the main objective of allowing PBL curriculum students to appreciate Family Medicine and Community Based health activities in the community. As a result, students have been given the opportunity to work, live, and study in their respective COBES sites throughout selected districts of Uganda.

Through COBES, students can appreciate how the Government of Uganda tries to implement Primary Health Care (PHC) via the Uganda National Minimum Health Care Package (UNMCHP). It follows that COBES presents a tool for our (the students) community internship and enables the PBL curriculum students to:

1-Practice "Reality Education"
2-Implement Priority National Health Programmes advocated by the UNMCHP
3-Promote Community empowerment and Equity in Health
4-Acclimatize to the districts and communities.

The photos below are images of "PART 2 of COBES" in the Kawempe Division, Kampala District. Other photos of other districts will follow :-)

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