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| KCMC College/KCMC Eye Department and KCCO |
| KCMC College, KCMC Eye Department and KCCO share a commitment to common goals; specifically, to:
The KCCO has an official memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Department of Ophthalmology and Kilimanjaro Christian Medical College under which the KCCO assumes or shares responsibility (subject to specific funding grants) for many teaching activities, running workshops and seminars, supervising the ORCEA, serving in an advisory capacity for planning Eye Department services, conducting epidemiologic and clinical research in prevention or treatment of vision loss or related fields, and serves on committees KCMC Eye Department The Eye Department of KCMC was established in the 1960s by the Good Samaritan Foundation (GSF). The Department is responsible for providing eye care services at all levels (primary- tertiary) and is the only tertiary care provider for northern Tanzania. To meet the training needs in Tanzania, GSF established the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical College within Tumaini University in 1998. The College graduates students in the fields of medicine and in specialties such as Public Health and Ophthalmology. The Eye Department is responsible for training ophthalmologists awarded the degree of MMed (Master of Medicine) in Ophthalmology and for training assistant medical officers in ophthalmology (AMO-O). |
More about KCCO What is Community Ophthalmology? KCMC College/KCMC Eye Department and KCCO |