Anesthesia

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Back ground

Anesthesia is a branch of medical science /or specialty represents a unique, exciting, specialized, and challenging art and science that deals with perioperative and ICU management of a surgical and/or medical patient. Moreover, it also plays a role in promotional and curative services at the community level. As a young and dynamic profession, it requires keeping evolving changes abreast.

Initially, the BSc in Anesthesia used to enroll only practicing nurses, but more recently a generic BSc in Anesthesia has been developed to train anesthesia practitioners when they leave straight from school without previous clinical experience. This generic BSc in Anesthesia was first started in Gondar University in 2003 E.C.

The recent innovations in educational techniques, frequent changes and new developments in anesthesia on the wide spectrum of services require professional graduates to be more of task-oriented and competent. However, in Ethiopia, currently non-physician anesthetists predominantly provide anesthesia. As stated in HSTP II, there is a significant unmet need for qualified anesthesia professionals, especially considering the long lead-time and limited private sector involvement in training. Moreover, the lack of retention mechanisms for anesthesia professionals worsened the task force crisis. Although it is known, that Dire Dawa University (DDU) is among higher institution launch generic anesthesia training to solve these problems, the department of Anesthesia was established in 2006 E.C at DDU with first Bach of 29 students. Since that consecutively accepting and graduating Anesthesia students. As of now, it has all its batch of 1st year, 2nd year, 3rd year and 4th year with 81 students.

The goal of this program is to provide a foundation for an undergraduate education program that will prepare competent baccalaureate anesthesia professional.

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