Doctor launches programme for trainee Ukrainian medics
Sharon Raymond, GP and director of the Crisis Rescue Foundation, has signed up around 250 experienced medics, professors and academics.
Jenni Frazer is a freelance journalist
A Hendon doctor who has raised thousands of pounds to help people through the Covid pandemic has now turned her attention to practical help for the Ukraine.
Sharon Raymond, a GP who is director of the Crisis Rescue Foundation, previously the Covid Crisis Rescue Foundation, has launched a “bespoke” medical programme for trainee Ukrainian doctors. The aim, Dr Raymond says, “is to take the pressure off Ukrainian medical school lecturers, trying to deliver online lectures to Ukraine medical students who’ve been displaced from Ukraine to locations globally”.
The Crisis Rescue Foundation (CRF) is working closely with Ukrainian medical school lecturers to build the programme. Those who register for it, it is hoped, will receive Ukrainian medical accreditation, though many students plan to join the NHS workforce once they complete their studies.
Because of the Russian invasion and the disruption of the war, some of the Ukrainian lecturers have had to leave shelters to teach their students, and all too often, recently, their lectures have been disrupted by air raids.
To help the Ukrainian professors, CRF has signed up around 250 experienced medics, professors and academics. They are giving around seven lectures daily, which are getting an enthusiastic response from the estimated 2,000 medical students, some still in Ukraine and others displaced globally. Dr Raymond says: “CRF is also running lectures for war zone medicine for those clinicians on the frontline in Ukraine”.
One Ukrainian professor, expressing gratitude to CRF, said: “You are doing a fantastic job”, while another wrote: “Thank you for everything you are doing for Dnipro and for all people who are trapped in this situation”.
A medical student added: “Our immense gratitude to you and your task force,Doctor. As budding students in the field whose foundation is nothing but altruism, you all are setting a great example for us to follow. We only hope to have an opportunity to repay the debt that we owe to you, to our future generations of doctors and healthcare professionals, and help them in a time of crisis just like you are. Thank you”.
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