Trinity School of Medicine honours new students

The original article can be found in: The Vincentian By: William Kojah Anthony

When the Trinity School of Medicine honours new students Monday January 7, the keynote speaker will be renewing acquaintances here. That individual is Kent L. Rollins.

He is the Chief of Urology Chippenham and Johnson Willis Hospitals in Richmond Virginia USA. Rollins is also a Volunteer Surgeon with the World Pediatric Project.

In 2010, the World Pediatric Project teamed up with the Children’s Hospital of Richmond to fund and build a new Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

This specialized NICU provides a safe and sterile environment for sick and premature newborns in their critical first days.
Rollins will use his return to St. Vincent and the Grenadines to enhance his earlier groundings.

This visit however will be a boost for the new Trinity School of Medicine Students at their ‘White Coat Ceremony.’

The Trinity School of Medicine describes its approach as modeling after the United States’ curricula and teaching principles.

It also prides itself with the integration of the basic and clinical sciences throughout the five terms of the Foundations of Medicine.

Students will have access to the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital and clinics nationwide.

They will get skills, knowledge and attitudes needed to practice patient-centered medicine in emerging health care.

Trinity School of Medicine aims to improve its curriculum so that it responds to and incorporates changes in medical knowledge and practice.

There is no question about its acceptance of the values of the medical profession.

It is based at Ratho Mill on the south eastern coast of mainland St. Vincent. In addition to the luscious view of the surrounding mainland scenery, students there get a glimpse of Bequia and Mustique, part of the Grenadines chain which form part of the multi Island Caribbean destination.

With a capacity of 200 students, those who enroll on the Campus receive specialized informal training opportunities over their 75 weeks of training.

While most of them are North American, with 60 percent from the USA and 23 percent of Canadian origin, Caribbean students are making use of the recently installed facility on the remote Caribbean territory of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

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