UANDISHI 3 years on

Cohort 1 (2023) mentees, mentors and facilitators.

“UANDISHI-Building Capacity for Writing Scientific Manuscripts” is an experiential manuscript writing training and mentorship program being implemented at the Faculty of Health Sciences, and domiciled at KAVI-ICR.

In its third year (2023) UANDISHI is training 20 Mentees and 6 Mentors. Cohort 1 of 2023 (10 Mentees) joined the program in March 2023; these Mentees have completed the training and are presently submitting their manuscripts to peer reviewed journals. Cohort 2 Mentees (9) joined the program in July 2023; this cohort is scheduled to complete training in October 2023.

Since its inception in 2021, UANDISHI program has trained 39 Mentees (postgraduate students) and 25 Mentors (faculty). Through this, we have mentored the development and submission of over 25 manuscripts to peer reviewed journals by our postgraduate students, and already have 15 published manuscripts.