Healthcare education reaches its highest purpose when universities, healthcare professionals, students and communities become partners in learning.
YotKom Missions International (YKMI) is a global health education organisation based in Gulu, Uganda. We run international clinical elective programmes, humanitarian healthcare outreach, university partnerships and research, all built on one idea: communities are partners in learning, never simply places where learning happens. Our flagship programme, Oral Health Uganda, takes mobile dental clinics and school-based oral health screening to rural and peri-urban communities, and gives visiting students supervised training alongside local dental professionals.
To prepare compassionate healthcare professionals and strengthen communities by delivering world-class international clinical education, humanitarian health programmes, research, and collaborative partnerships that create lasting impact.
To be Africa’s leading community-based global health education platform, recognised internationally for excellence in clinical education, humanitarian healthcare, academic collaboration, and ethical global health partnerships.
YKMI’s work began with Oral Health Uganda (OHU), a dental outreach programme built on mobile clinics and school-based screening. OHU is where our community partnership model was first tested, and it remains the ground from which every other programme grows.
Each pillar strengthens the others. No programme at YKMI stands apart from the community it serves.
Structured placements for healthcare students and professionals, embedded within supervised community clinics rather than isolated training sites, and built around reciprocal learning, not observation.
Learn moreDirect clinical care delivered where access is limited, led by local healthcare professionals and supported by visiting teams.
Learn moreCurriculum-aligned collaborations that give academic institutions a credible, ethical route into global health education.
Learn moreOriginal field data and applied research, shared openly to inform community-based healthcare training elsewhere.
Learn moreThe thread running through every programme: communities are partners in learning, never simply sites where learning happens.
Learn morePartner with us to shape the future of community-based global health education.
Get involvedStructured placements in hospitals, health centres, schools, mobile outreach clinics and rural communities.
The order matters. Each principle sets what comes first when priorities compete.
EducationbeforeActivity
Every placement is designed around what participants learn and what communities gain, not around how much activity it generates.
PartnershipbeforePresence
We work where we are invited and alongside local partners. Being present is never a substitute for genuine partnership.
PatientsbeforeProgrammes
The wellbeing and dignity of the people we serve come before any programme target, timetable or schedule.
HumilitybeforeExpertise
Visiting professionals arrive as learners first, respecting local knowledge and local clinical leadership.
QualitybeforeGrowth
We grow only as fast as we can keep supervision and clinical standards where they should be.
ImpactbeforeNumbers
We judge our work by lasting change in communities, not by how many people pass through it.
Programmes are designed with communities and universities, not delivered to them.
Visiting participants learn as much from host clinicians and communities as they contribute.
Every placement exists because a community invited it, not because it needed subjects for practice.
Visiting and local professionals work side by side under one clinical structure, not in parallel.
Every clinical activity is supervised to the same standard, regardless of who is performing it.
We prioritise sustained collaboration over short-term interventions.
Support mobile dental outreach, school screening and supervised clinical training in northern Uganda.
YotKom Missions International (YKMI) is a global health education organisation based in Gulu, Uganda. It runs international clinical elective programmes, humanitarian healthcare, university partnerships, research and community-based health education, with communities treated as partners in learning. Its flagship programme is Oral Health Uganda.
YKMI is based in Gulu, in northern Uganda. Its programmes work with hospitals, health centres, schools, mobile outreach clinics and rural and peri-urban communities in Uganda.
Send an enquiry through the Get Involved page at yotkommissions.org/get-involved. Applicants need proof of enrolment from their home university, a letter of intent, immunisation records and a reference from a supervising faculty member. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
You can give online at yotkommissions.org/give using the secure payment options shown there, such as card and mobile money. Payments are handled by the payment provider, so YKMI never sees or stores your card details. For other ways to give, call or WhatsApp +256 787 226542.
