PROSTHETICS AND ORTHOTICS
The mission of this program is to train qualified prosthetics and orthotics technicians capable of providing holistic high quality prosthetics and orthotics services in diverse clinical and academic settings locally, nationally and internationally. Our aim therefore, is geared towards training young men and women who have the vocation embedded in them and are ready to earn a living and also to save lives.
Generic Skills
- Be responsible and reflective;
- Have gestural skills and interpersonal skills;
- Be able to communicate easily both in writing and orally;
- Recognize your emotions and use them with the necessary professional skills;
- Master the computer tool and ICT;
- Have proven trust and confidence;
- Have critical ability and questioning;
- Develop an ethical and a professional normal;
- make thoughtful decisions;
- Act with autonomy and responsibility in the well-defined fields of its function.
Specific skills
- The student should be able to:
- Fabricate and make custom fitting of artificial limbs and orthopedic braces;
- Handle patient Assessment, formulation of the orthotic/prosthetic treatment plan, implementation of the treatment plan, and perform the necessary procedures to deliver the appropriate orthotic/prosthetic services including fabrication;
- Follow-up treatment plans, provide continuing patient care and periodic evaluation to assure/maintain/document optimal fitness and function of the orthosis/prosthesis;
- Master the health policy and evolution as well as the issues of the sectoral health strategy in Cameroon and health legislation;
- Draw instruments and their uses.
- Rehabilitations centers,
- Clinics/hospitals
- Public function;
- Hospitals and private clinics;
- NGO (Non Governmental Organizations);
- Self-employment;
- Occupational Medicine




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