Internship Coordinator at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Dr. Clyde Cave.
Dr. Emma Dash (centre) proudly displays the QEH Intern of the Year 2015-2016 shield she received following the Intern Awards ceremony held on Friday. With her are the Outstanding Interns for 2015-2016, (from left) Dr. Joeleita Agard, Dr. Amelia Haynes, Dr. Janine Taitt, Dr. Cheyanne Francis, Dr. Sara Dana-Patel and Dr. Kimberlee Clarke. Also pictured is QEH Internship Coordinator, Dr. Clyde Cave (back right) and Director of Medical Services, Dr. Anthony Harris.
Outstanding QEH Interns rewarded for hard work, dedication to duty
Sun, 10/30/2016 - 12:00am
By:
Regina Selman Moore
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital has acknowledged the hard work, dedication and valuable contribution of seven outstanding interns, all Barbadians, who successfully mastered their one year internship at the island’s premier public health care institution.
During a ceremony held in the QEH’s Boardroom yesterday morning, Internship Coordinator, Dr. Clyde Cave, accompanied by Director of Medical Services, Dr. Anthony Harris, presented Intern Awards for the period June 2015 – July 2016, to Intern of the Year, Dr. Emma Dash and six Outstanding Interns – Dr. Joeleita Agard, Dr. Kimberlee Clarke, Dr. Sara Dana-Patel, Dr. Cheyanne Francis, Dr. Amelia Haynes and Dr. Janine Taitt. Six of the seven graduated from the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, before taking up their internship, whilst Dr. Francis graduated from the UWI, Mona Campus.
“Our interns work long hours, they work hard rotations, they spend three months in each of the four major disciplines of Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Medicine and Surgery. During that time, they learn to implement the knowledge they would have learnt in their basic medical degree, into the practice of medicine,” Dr. Cave commented.
“So we like to regard this as an apprenticeship. All you have to do is survive the time and get your registration at the end, but the people that we have here today have done better than that, they have been outstanding Interns of the Year,” he added.
“Today we are celebrating those who have done exceptionally well. Dr. Emma Dash has been chosen by the Heads of the four Departments as our “Intern of the Year” and the other six doctors that you see here, have all been outstanding interns. Outstanding, not only in the knowledge and the performance of their duties and surviving 30 hour shifts, but also in the characteristics that we think embody our profession and as professional, caring individuals who put patients before self,” the Internship Coordinator further remarked.
After receiving an academic medical degree from a university, an approved internship is required in order for doctors to register with the Medical Council of Barbados and be able to practice in Barbados. A few of the doctors have indicated that they hope to further their practice overseas.