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Cincinnati Emergency medicine doctor Herb Loyd and head of Emergency medicine at Cincinnati hospital Kurt Knochel can proudly announce that the first year of three year plan to expose 24 Lithuanian Physicians training in the specialty of Emergency Medicine about how to manage and direct Emergency Medicine Departments in community hospitals is done with tremendous success.
First six young Lithuanian doctors had a privilege to learn from the experts in this area. Four more are preparing for their residency in Cincinnati in spring of 2018.
Kestutits Stasaitis, head of Kauno Klinikos Emergency Department, shares: "First of all, I am happy that residents had a possibility to meet and speak with pioneers of Emergency medicine, because everyone understands that situation in USA with EM was similar at the beginning of this specialty. The second very important thing is that everyone came back very motivated and more confident than they were before. As a result of all what happened during that period of time, we started a very interesting project for our residents, which we call Chief rotation, when each of them will have opportunity to be a head of our emergency department for 2 month with all responsibilities of chief."
The Kazickas Family Foundation is glad to be a part of this initiative.
Paulius Uksas ir Laimonas Miseikis were the last two residents in Cincinnati in 2017. Paulius expresses his gratitude and shares his experience in a letter:
"I'd like to thank the KFF from the bottom of my heart for an opportunity to larn all about emergency medicine services in the US. This experience is priceless. Even though the first residents, Simona and Vytautas, tried to share their experience upon their return from Cincinnati, but it's impossible to picture it all until you see it with your own eyes. Entire program was intensive work. Most of the time we've spent at the TriHealth hospitals with dr. Kurt Knochel, who taught us everything related to Emergency medicine management, such as problem solving skills, interrelationship reinforcement, business process management in medicine while recognizing the most important rule - patient is always priority number one. That's priceless experience and new perspective on relationship with a patient, keeping in mind that treatment at the Emergency departement is service and patient satisfaction is extremely important.
I'm also really excited to share this opportunity with Kaunas University residents. We make our relationship stronger and are the most united system in Lithuania, because we have the same goal and are moving the same direction.
One of the main tasks Laimonas and I had, was to make a presentation reflecting true situation in Lithuania, and to present it to the University of Cincinnati Global Health Committee. They were impressed because our issues in Emergency medicine in Lithuania resembled the same issues they had 30-40 year ago in the USA and that was the reason this program started here. I believe this cemented our strong relationship with University representatives. That's an opportunity to improve emergency medicine resident training program in Lithuania, research opportunities, standardize the system for regulations, protocols and committees, because they have the recipe that we need in order to move Emergency medicine in Lithuania to the next level.