Scholars at risk
Challenge: Hundreds of thousands of people suffer from medical and surgical polytrauma, post-traumatic psychological distress, and sexual violence. The shelling of critical infrastructure disrupted the operations of most academic institutions, limiting doctors’ ability to train to address these new problems.
Solution: DU4U created a Scholars at Risk – Ukraine (SAR-U) to meet educational requirements impossible to fulfill in-country due to the war and to advance knowledge and capacity for improved healthcare delivery in Ukraine.
In April 2023, six critical care and obstetrics doctors form across Ukraine trained with 74 Yale doctors and other clinicians at to learn new pain control techniques, kidney transplant medicine, and high-risk pregnancy management. They also received much needed respite from sirens and bombings.
Mental health is a key component of our work. DU4U team also trained 24 Ukrainian psychologists on cutting edge treatment of acute trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Warsaw, Poland.
Our partners include Ukraine’s Ministry of Health, Christian Medical Association of Ukraine, The Primo Levi Center, The MacMillan Center at Yale University, Dwight Hall at Yale, and Yale New Haven Health System.
We are developing a sustainable program to train more Critical Care, Obstetrics, Psychiatry and Psychology doctors, and are expanding our educational experience to Reconstructive Surgery, Interventional Radiology, Oncology, Interventional Psychiatry, Pediatrics and more.
