and Cave Hill added the diploma in 1976. However, Mona was already pursuing a four-year doctorate program in anaesthetics, first offered in 1974. Eventually, this more specialised degree (extended to include intensive care) was extended to the other two campuses in 1984, while the one-year programme was discontinued in 1994.
While improvements were being made to the training of physicians as anaesthesiologists, there continued to be a shortage of trained personnel in rural areas. In Jamaica, an initiative to train nurse anaesthetists started, with nurses first sent to the US and Cuba, followed by the establishment of the Jamaica School of Nurse Anaesthetists in 1981, which continues to this day (As of 2019) with the Ministry of Health. This is in addition to specialised additional training for nurses in intensive care, which began in 1969.
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Two of the three faculties of medical sciences offer dentistry. The St. Augustine campus was the first to offer a dental school. It opened in 1989 …
