CMES autorun USB device. Image courtesy of Dr. Manoj Thomas.
He was also awarded a Fulbright Global Scholar Fellowship to continue his studies in Africa, where he was joined by Dr Jessica Pelletier, a Paramedic Education Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. Dr Thomas is co-founder and president of Techies without Borders (TWB), a global non-profit organisation that aims to harness the power of technology for education and healthcare, and Dr Pelletier is TWB's Africa Coordinator.
The research team also conducted extensive data collection for a multinational study, which was conducted as a collaborative research initiative involving the University of Sydney and partners in the US (Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, University of Nevada in Las Vegas, Claremont Graduate University in California) and Africa (Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital in Gambia, University of Calabar in Nigeria, JUHRI in Nigeria, Samaritan Health Systems in Uganda).
Dr Thomas added: “We are currently exceeding the capacity of our volunteers. Our next challenge is to extend the CMES technology to accommodate new CME content such as HD video and images, and to enhance knowledge retrieval using language models. To do this, we need to hire IT experts.”
