Even as moves are made by the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) to expand its training capacity, the premier health facility on Friday last unveiled the candidates who will from today commence its Postgraduate Residency training programme.Through its Institute of Health Science Education (IHSE), which is an affiliate of the University of Guyana, the GPHC is able to offer both Diploma and Masters Programmes in General Surgery, Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Orthopaedic and Traumatology, Emergency Medicine , Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases. Courses including Nurse Anaesthesia and Neonatal Nurse Intensive Training are also offered.This year,Jerseys NFL China, 17 doctors have enrolled for programmes in the areas of General Surgery, Paediatrics, Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Emergency Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Anaesthesia and Intensive Care.Taking on studies in General Surgery are Ravinauth Thakoordeen and Joseph London while Obstetrics and Gynaecology will be pursued by Hardeo Ramdeholl, Latoya Young, Fareez Khan, Padmini Singh, Radha Sookraj and Guy Norman Low.Richard Thompson has been accepted to specialise in Orthopaedics,NFL Jerseys Authentic, Priscilla Joseph and Noshella Singh will be engaged in Emergency Medicine while Youlander Hendricks and Onica Higgins-Gill will undertake studies in Anaesthesia.Courses in Paediatrics will be dedicated to Stefani Singh, Winsome Scott, Mala Shewram and Bibi Areefa Karan and the Nurse Anaesthesia programme will be delivered to Martina Abrams, Marvin Inniss, Geraldine Fraser, Cynthia Rodrigues, Ray O’Connell and Ian Sandy.The programmes are all delivered at the GPHC in partnership with several Universities and Organisations in the United States of America, Canada and the Caribbean.Among the collaborating organisations are the Canadian Association of General Surgeons for the Post Graduate Diploma in Surgery, Guyana Help the Kids for the Masters in Paediatrics Programme, Vanderbilt University for the Masters in Emergency Medicine Programme and University Hospitals, Case Medical Centre for the Masters in Obstetrics and Gynaecology Programme.And the most recent collaboration that the GPHC has been able to forge has been with the University of Maryland, Institute of Human Virology for the delivery of the Masters in Internal Medicine/Infectious Disease Programme, which was launched in January.At the moment, the public hospital is working with the Dalhousie University for the development and delivery of a Masters Programme in Psychiatry and this is expected to begin before the end of the year.The Master’s Programme in Psychiatry was earlier this year alluded to by Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, Dr. Emanuel Cummings,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, who had also emphasised the need for work on a Post Graduate Programme in mental health nursing.This,Cheap Jerseys From China, according to him,Cheap Jerseys Wholesale, “is very, very important to deal with a lot of the issues that we do have in our society today.”Since 2005,Cheap China Jerseys, Dr. Cummings disclosed that over nine programmes were established in medicine and “I want the development of nursing to go hand in hand with the development of medicine because if you have a doctor who is a psychiatrist, you will also want a psychiatric nurse.”“If you have a general surgeon you will also want to have nurses specialising in surgical nursing,” Dr. Cummings added.He also amplified his conviction that the nursing profession has evolved over the years with nurses in the past only seeing themselves as registered nurses (RNs). However, with the development of the Bachelors of Science Degree in Nursing programme, nurses can move up from the level of RN. However, the Dean was resolute in insisting that there is now the need for the introduction of specialty nursing at the University of Guyana so that “we can have nurses specialise in areas such as mental health.”Moreover, he had extended a challenge to nurses to eye various specialties in nursing which, he said, can be kick-started with the BSc programme which commenced in 2002.This programme, he stated, is now well established at the university, so much so that there is no longer a shortage of lecturers.