Using Community Health Workers and a Smartphone Application to Improve Diabetes Control in Rural Guatemala.

Background: The global prevalence of diabetes has nearly doubled since 1980. Seventy-five percent of patients with diabetes live in low- and middle-income countries, such as Guatemala, where health care systems are often poorly equipped for chronic disease management. Community health workers (CHWs) and mobile health technology have increasingly been applied to the diabetes epidemic in these settings, although mostly in supportive rather than primary roles in diabetes management.

Development of a Global Health Milestones Tool for Learners in Emergency Medicine: A Pilot Project.

Objectives: In medical education and training, increasing numbers of institutions and learners are participating in global health experiences. Within the context of competency-based education and assessment methodologies, a standardized assessment tool may prove valuable to all of the aforementioned stakeholders. Milestones are now used as the standard for trainee assessment in graduate medical education.

Development of pediatric emergency medicine at Addis Ababa University/Tikuranbessa Specialized Hospital, Ethiopia.

Background: In the world emergencies occur everywhere, and each day they consume ressources regardless of whether there are systems capable of achieving good outcomes. Low-income countries suffer the most highest rates of every category of injury--from traffic and the highest rates of acute complications of communicable diseases including tuberculosis, malaria and HIV.

Objective: To describe the development of pediatrics emergency medicine at Tikur Anbesa Specialized Hospital

Methods: A twinning partnership model was used in developing a pediatric emergency medicine training program helps in development of pediatrics emergency system.