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Res Rep Gynaecol Obstet 2017 | Volume 1 Issue 4

November 02-03, 2017 | Chicago, USA

Embryology and In vitro Fertilization

World Congress on

Challenges and perspectives of teaching embryology in a low-income setting: Cameroon

Gregory Halle-Ekane

University of Buea, Cameroon

he broad and dynamic nature of embryology has always

made it a difficult topic to teach. Following the dramatic

explosion of molecular embryology from the early 1990s,

educators are faced with the dilemma of what should be

taught to students within the limited hours of lecture. A

medical embryology course should provide students the

scientific basis for understanding mechanisms underlying

both normal and abnormal development and provide

avenues for medical research. To achieve this, different tools

which have been developed to facilitate the teaching of this

course are quasi inexistent in most low-income countries.

This presentation aims at highlighting the challenges

and perspectives in the teaching of embryology in a low-

income setting with the hope of enhancing inter-university

partnership as a measure to fill this gap.

Speaker Biography

Gregory Halle-Ekane is a practicing Obstetrician and Gynaecologist working in the Buea

Regional Hospital and the Douala General Hospital, Douala. The latter is a tertiary centre

that serves the Central African sub region. He is currently, the Vice Dean In-Charge of

Research and Cooperation in the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Bueaand

also the country’s Coordinator for the Geneva Foundation for Medical Education

and Research, Switzerland. He is Consultant Sector Editor for the African Journal of

Integrated Health and a peer reviewer of six international journals. Since 1996, he

participated in the design and oversees some screening and treatment of cervical

cancer programs at the local and national levels. He has also been involved in many

research projects in the area of maternal and perinatal health. He coordinates research

and teaching activities between the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Buea and

other health facilities in Cameroon (e.g Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Services

and Catholic Health Services) working to improve health care through educational,

research and clinical care improvement collaborations. Specifically, he mentors and

supervises local and visiting Ob/Gyn trainees including visitors to the CBCHS through

the UAB-Cameroon Health Care Collaboration Initiative. He also mentors fellows of

the Afya Bora Consortium and collaborates with other US Universities (Universities of

Arizona and Washington).