Medical Education & IT

The Department of Medical Education & Information Technology (DMEIT)

The Department of Medical Education and Information Technology (DMEIT) sits where teaching, technology and clinical practice meet. We build and run the technology the School teaches with, we teach informatics and simulation across the health professions, and we train the people who do the teaching.

The Department provides educational support services to the whole School, and maintains active research involvement across the health and allied sciences.

What we do for the School

• Setting up and managing the information technology infrastructure that supports teaching, learning and research across the School.
• Educational support services, including problem based learning support and performance based assessment.
• Support for faculty in educational outcomes, educational technology and the use of teaching platforms.

Teaching

Our teaching runs from the early undergraduate years through to doctoral level.

• Medical informatics modules.
• Nursing and midwifery informatics courses.
• Hands on clinical skills and simulation, from level 200 to level 600.
• Doctoral teaching on the PhD programmes in Health Information Management and in Nursing and Midwifery.

Continuing professional development and faculty training

The Department coordinates continuing professional development events for doctors, physician assistants, nurses and other health workers. We also organise workshops and training for faculty of the School, so that teaching staff keep pace with the technologies and methods their students will practise with.

Enquiries may be sent to info@uccsms.edu.gh.

Research

Our research interests cut across:

• Medical simulation
• Artificial intelligence in health
• Teaching technologies and educational outcomes
• Emergency medicine
• Medical informatics and medical education

Selected recent publications

• Dike NO, Okyere P, Kajjimu J, Achampong EK. Enhancing emergency trauma management skills through simulation: a quality improvement initiative in Ghana. Cureus. 2026;18(3):e105156. DOI
• Dike NO. Teaching procedural skills: a structured, evidence informed framework for clinician educators across resource settings. Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development. 2026;13. DOI
• Dike NO, Kajjimu J, Quao NSA, Cobbold S, Kotey SN. Evaluation of the emergency care preparedness of frontline junior doctors: a training needs assessment in Ghana. Cureus. 2026;18(4):e107158. DOI
• Dike NO, Kajjimu J, Amissah-Arthur MB. Training without harm: rethinking ethics, simulation and the evolving future of medical education in West Africa. Advances in Medical Education and Practice. 2026;17. DOI
• Agyemang E, Esia-Donkoh K, Adu-Gyamfi AB, Achampong EK. Challenges associated with the use of electronic health record systems for health service delivery in Ghana. Advances in Health Information Science and Practice. 2026;2(1). DOI
• Achampong EK, Agyemang E, Esia-Donkoh K, Adu-Gyamfi AB. Health professionals’ satisfaction with the use of electronic health records system for healthcare delivery in Ghana. Advances in Health Information Science and Practice. 2025;1(1). DOI
• Car J, Ong QC, Erlikh Fox T, et al (including Achampong EK). The digital health competencies in medical education framework: an international consensus statement based on a Delphi study. JAMA Network Open. 2025;8(1):e2453131. DOI
• Dike NO, Blankson ES, Segnitome S. Henna induced intravascular hemolysis in a glucose 6 phosphate dehydrogenase deficient Ghanaian female child with full defect. International Medical Case Reports Journal. 2025;18:1035-1040. DOI
• Agyemang E, Adu-Gyamfi AB, Achampong EK, Esia-Donkoh K. Assessing the interdependency among effectiveness, satisfaction and efficient use of the Lightwave Health Information Management System by health professionals in Ghana. BMC Health Services Research. 2024;24:1418. DOI
• Amoateng CNA, Achampong EK. Impact of the Lightwave Health Information Management Software on the dimensions of quality of healthcare data. Healthcare Informatics Research. 2024;30(1):35-41. DOI
• Agyemang E, Esia-Donkoh K, Adu-Gyamfi AB, Douri JB, Adoma PO, Achampong EK. Assessing the efficient use of the Lightwave Health Information Management System for health service delivery in Ghana. BMJ Health and Care Informatics. 2023;30(1):e100769. DOI
• Agyemang E, Adu-Gyamfi AB, Esia-Donkoh K, Achampong EK. Effective use of electronic health records system for healthcare delivery in Ghana. Frontiers in Health Informatics. 2023;12. DOI
• Apio AL, Kissi J, Achampong EK. A systematic review of artificial intelligence based methods in healthcare. International Journal of Public Health Science. 2023;12(3). DOI
• Achampong EK. Implementation of electronic health record system in Ghana: a review. The Open Public Health Journal. 2022;15(1).
• Achampong EK. Electronic health records use in the training of medical students in Ghana. Applied Medical Informatics. 2022;44(2):31-36.
• Kissi J, Kusi Achampong E, Kumasenu Mensah N, Annobil C, Naa Lamptey J. Moving towards digitising COVID-19 vaccination certificate: a systematic review of literature. Vaccines. 2022;10(12):2040. DOI

Full publication records are available on Google Scholar, Scopus and ORCID, and in the University of Cape Coast staff directory.

Looking ahead

The Department is developing Master’s and PhD programmes in Health Informatics, Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare, and Medical Simulation. These will open postgraduate pathways in a field where Ghana trains very few specialists, and will build on the teaching and research the Department already carries.