Information for Doctors
A formal affiliation is not required to refer patients to the Aga Khan Hospital, Nairobi. For patient referrals or to apply for Hospital admitting and practicing privileges, please contact:

Medical Director
P.O. Box 30270 - 00100
GPO Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: +254 20 366 2462/3
Fax: +254 20 374 0271
E-mail: Write to Medical Director

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Continuing Medical Education (CME)
Continuing Medical Education (CME) programmes are intended to continue the medical education of physicians/health care professionals. Doctors keep abreast of medical developments, clinical research and treatment by attending weekly courses and medical conferences. At the Aga Khan Hospital, Nairobi, CME sessions are held every Thursday.

Education subject areas include: clinical meetings, quarterly symposia on topical subjects, clinical, pathological and radiological conferences (CPRC) and a Biannual Scientific conference and Department General Clubs.

Health care professionals can join these sessions or receive updates by contacting:

CME Coordinator
P.O. Box 30270 - 00100
GPO Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: +254 20 366 2175
Fax: +254 20 374 0271
E-mail: Write to CME Coordinator

Postgraduate Medical Education Programmes
Aga Khan University has commenced Postgraduate Medical Education (PGME) in clinical departments at The Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi, making the hospital the first and only teaching private hospital in the region. The programmes are in Medicine, Surgery and Imaging Radiology. The curriculum and training is developed to provide relevant and contextual learning for practice in Africa. The objective is to develop specialists in various fields of medicine, who will have far reaching impact on the development of health systems in their respective countries.

The University’s mission is to develop role model training programmes and also to have a long-term involvement in the provision of health care and health care education in these countries. Aga Khan University’s presence in East Africa is as a result of cooperation between the public and the private sectors, as well as collaborations between local, regional and international agencies. Expansion of the University’s programmes and facilities in coming years will make an effective contribution to the ongoing development in East Africa.

Post Graduate Medical Education is essentially built around practical experience in patient care and self-directed learning. In a well designed, formal programme, the practical experience is planned to give residents graduated responsibilities in patient care under careful supervision. The residents are fully accountable for their actions to a hierarchical team structure headed by a faculty member who is an expert in his/her field. Acquisition of competence is carefully structured and involves exposure to actual and simulated practice.

Doctors Plaza
Inaugurated in 1990 the Doctors Plaza provides patients with access to a wide range of quality specialty care under one roof, within easy reach of all ancillary and support services. The three-storey building houses 75 consultants.

Services offered include:
•	Paediatrics: neonatology, general paediatrics, paediatric surgery, paediatric nephrology and paediatrics pneumonology;
•	Surgery: orthopaedics, general surgery, cardio thoracic surgery, plastic and reconstructive surgery, ear, nose and throat surgery, neurosurgery, oral and maxillofacial surgery, ophthalmology and urology;
•	Obstetrics and Gynaecology;
•	General Medicine: cardiology, dermatology and venereology, endocrinology (diabetology), preventive medicine, internal medicine and pulmonology, nephrology (kidney) psychiatry, neurology and internal medicine;
•	Anaesthesia.

New specialties are added from time to time to enhance services covered.

Only specialist consultants credentialed by the Hospital practice at the Plaza. If necessary, they can conveniently admit patients to The Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi. This approach provides patients with the best diagnostic treatment, ward facilities, thereby enhancing the quality of patient care.

Library
The Hospital Library provides physicians, nurses and health care professionals with the latest medical books, journals and access to the Internet. It also has slide making, scanning, cd writing and audio visual technology for presentations. Interested physicians are welcome to utilize these facilities at nominal rates.

Facilities include:
•	Key medicine, surgery and radiology texts required for postgraduate medical education;
•	Access to latest medical journals;
•	HINARI (Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative), developed by the World Health Organisation, with access to 2,000 biomedical, social sciences journals and resources to institutions in developing countries;
•	Medline, a comprehensive medical online database with 4,600 biomedical journal abstracts;
•	EBSCOHost, an electronic full text and bibliographic database linked to 7,000 nursing, medicine, health, social sciences and humanities journals;
•	Blackwell Synergy, an online journal service of international scholarly and professional societies.

For more information, please contact:
Hospital Librarian
Tel: +254 20 374 2531
Fax: +254 20 374 1749
E-mail: Write to Hospital Librarian

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