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10th Year Anniversary Photo Book

Our birthday book is a collection of contributions from each SAFRI graduated cohort, the hard work of the SEEK and UBER squad as well as some digging through the SAFRI newsletters and photo archives. Our 10 year journey is indeed a celebration of our individual journeys as well as the path that FAIMER and SAFRI has forged in promoting health professions education in Africa.

Our birthday book is a collection of contributions from each SAFRI graduated cohort, the hard work of the SEEK and UBER squad as well as some digging through the SAFRI newsletters and photo archives. Our 10 year journey is indeed a celebration of our individual journeys as well as the path that FAIMER and SAFRI has forged in promoting health professions education in Africa.

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Conferences and poster day:<br />

reflections on presenting educational<br />

research at poster day and at SAAHE<br />

By Chiv Gordon<br />

My SAFRI presentation journey began in the year<br />

I became a SAFRI fellow. One of the 2014 fellows<br />

presented a low-fi delity skills training idea that<br />

he had had; using cardboard boxes to represent<br />

the chest cavity for training on how to insert chest<br />

drains. I remember so clearly what Tiger Mom said<br />

to him- that the<br />

project was<br />

genius, given<br />

the resourceconstrained<br />

skills training<br />

opportunities<br />

that were<br />

available to<br />

him in his<br />

country. To<br />

hear someone built up like that was amazing. This<br />

made me see my own low-fi delity Pap smear skills<br />

training innovation (using toilet roll inners and<br />

melons) in a whole new light. Up to then, it had to me<br />

been a way to make training more tangible and fun. I<br />

never dreamed that anyone else could be interested<br />

in it. But after Tiger Mom’s comments, I decided

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