The Faculté de Médecine de Pharmacie et d'OdontoStomatologie (FMPOS) de Bamako (Mali) was created in 1993, the University of Bamako is young and is composed of 5 faculties, two institutes and a higher education center. The Faculty of Medicine of Bamako is the only medical school in Mali and welcomes numerous students from countries of the West African region. It has three major academic and research departments called DER (Departement d'Etude et de Recherche). They are: DER of Medicine, DER of Surgery, DER of Pharmaceutical Sciences and DER Public Health and Specialties.
The DER of Public Health and Specialties is the only one participating in the present program. It has begun to develop the Biomedical and Health Informatics since 2002. The aim was primarily to provide continuing medical education for health professionals in isolated rural areas through e-learning. The DER has thus, participated in the development and implementation of telemedicine tools to alleviate the shortage of qualified health professionals in Mali. The DER is composed of 7 public health teachers, 7 assistant professors and two assistants. It specifically works for the development of Medical Informatics in collaboration with the Universities of Geneva and Aix Marseilles II. The proposed creation of a Master in Public Health at the Faculty of Medicine of Bamako under the direction of the DER of public health has been adopted by the University of Bamako. This program is designed to make optimum use of existing human resources and address the lack of training public health graduates at the academic level in Mali. Despite the availability of competent human resources, this graduate program requires collaboration with other international universities for its success. The areas of cooperation currently underway are: The Institute of Public Health and Development of Bordeaux, Faculty of Medicine of Nice, University of Rennes. However, the use of e-learning seems essential to facilitate the involvement of these universities given the notorious lack of financial resources to meet the travel expenses of visiting experts and fellow professors. The DER is considering the creation of a Master program in Medical Informatics, which also can not currently be created without using ICT because it requires at the beginning assistance from experienced laboratories of its European partners.
Dr. Cheick Oumar Bagayoko, MD, PhD received his doctorate in medicine from the Bamako College of Medicine in 2002. He received his certificate of continuing education in Medical Computer Science from the University of Geneva in 2004, his Masters in Biomedical and Health Computer Science from the University Réné Descartes, Paris V in 2005, his Masters in Expertise and Engineering of Health Information Systems from the University of Aix en Provence in 2006 and his PhD in 2010. He is currently the Coordinator of the Francophone Africa Network for Telemedicine. He is senior-lecturer at the College of Medicine in Bamako. An expert in health related information and communication technologies, Dr. Bagayoko also has significant experience in coordinating and managing e-heath projects in Africa, notably through his work as Coordinator of the RAFT network, an internet-based medical education and consultation network targeting Francophone Africa. He has reviewed papers for several conferences and is in the program committees of conferences such as Rollback malaria and ICT in Africa 2002, National Strategy of ICT development 2005, JFIM 2007, JFIM2009...
Mr. Abdrahamane Anne. He received a Master degree in Libranship from the Belorussian Univesity of Culture, Minsk(Belorussia) in 1994 and a Master Degre in Information Sciences from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Sciences de l'Information et des Bibliotheques (Villeurbanne, France) in 2003. He has worked as system librarian in charge of databases and ICT related matters at the library of the Faculty of Medicine, in Bamako for 10 years. In 2006-2007 he spent one year as a Associate Fellow at the National Library of Medicine (Bethesda, USA). He've involved in the development of several websites. He gave many trainings in information retrieval, library automation, free software and Linux system administration. He holds Linux Professional Institute Certification Level I (LPIC 1).
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