PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIANS IN THE EBOLA EPIDEMIC – EXPERIENCES FROM THE FRONT LINE

Abstract Dr. Dhillon worked for six weeks as a physician in the Kerry Town Ebola Treatment Centre in Sierra Leone during the Ebola crisis. He volunteered and was employed by Save the Children UK and worked directly with Ebola positive patients. He is trained as a rural General Practitioner in Canada and did further specialist training in Tropical Medicine in London prior to his deployment. He will describe how the basic principles of Family Medicine applied during his experiences in Sierra Leone and how Family Medicine values can be used to not only care for patients but to care for the overall health of a resource poor country during a major epidemic. Justification and Content The purpose of this talk will be expose Family Physicians to the work done in an Ebola Treatment Centre and how the broad based training in Family Medicine is applicable to specific disease states, in particular Ebola. The talk will consist of a Q+A along with a Prezi slide presentation.