COVID-19 in Africa: Medical Education Programme Overview

This free case-based COVID-19 education programme is designed for doctors and other healthcare professionals in Africa. This page will be updated regularly with new COVID-19 educational content as well as curated guidance, data and publications for doctors. Doctors, nurses and medical students can also register for full access to MedShr to join the discussions in the COVID-19 Africa Group, view real COVID-19 cases from around the world, and take part in quick polls.

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COVID-19 Cases and Polls

COVID-19 Guidance for Doctors, Nurses and other Health Workers

COVID-19 Prevention

• COVID-19 Vaccine Development

• COVID-19 Patient Advice on Hand Washing

• COVID-19 Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

• Infection Prevention and Control in COVID-19

• COVID-19 Screening and Contact Tracing

COVID-19 Recognition

• COVID-19 Symptoms and Signs

• COVID-19 Recognition: Using Investigations to Predict Risk

• Triage of COVID-19 in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

• Asymptomatic and Pre-Symptomatic COVID-19 Infection

COVID-19 Investigation

• COVID-19 Resource Allocation: Who Should Get Masks?

• Difficult Decisions: Ethical Healthcare Resource Allocation

• COVID-19: Detecting Early Deterioration

• When to escalate care of patients with COVID-19

COVID-19 Management

• UK trial shows Dexamethasone can successfully reduce the mortality rate in high risk COVID patients

• Intensive Care Management

• Supportive and Palliative Care for Patients with COVID-19

• COVID-19: Potential Treatments [updated June 2020]

COVID-19 Patient Communications

• Establishing Prognosis and Outcomes of Novel Coronavirus

• Dispelling Common Coronavirus Myths and Misconceptions

COVID-19 in Clinical Groups/Specialties

• COVID-19 in Children

• COVID-19 in Pregnancy

Key COVID-19 Data

Updated 8 June 2020 from WHO. View the full Weekly COVID-19 Update.

Key COVID-19 News and Data

View the full Weekly COVID-19 Update

Please submit publications and resources to covid@medshr.net.

Get Involved

Please help share knowledge with doctors and other healthcare professionals by posting COVID-19 cases in the COVID-19 Africa Group, and by submitting articles and resources to covid@medshr.net.