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      Penn State College of Medicine helps seed medical school library in Ghana

      Penn State College of Medicine’s Tina Engle, left, and Susana Wumbee, a Mountcrest faculty member visiting the College of Medicine’s Simulation Center for a six-month fellowship, stand with boxes of medical education resources donated to Mountcrest University College in Ghana. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

      HERSHEY, Pa. — Medical students in the United States don’t generally have to worry about things like unreliable electricity and Internet service. This is not the case in rural Ghana, where Mountcrest University College is preparing to open the first private medical school in the country. Without reliable service, students are more dependent on printed materials than the digital resources available to their American counterparts.

      As part of an ongoing partnership, Penn State College of Medicine library staff recently loaded two, 40-foot containers with donated materials bound for Mountcrest. This was the second donation from the College of Medicine since the inception of Mountcrest’s medical school last year.

      Read more about the effort in this Penn State Medicine article.

      Last Updated October 29, 2015

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