Our Impact
Training healthcare professionals in Zambia with SolidarMed
In Zambia, many healthcare professionals face the same challenge: clinical training often happens only during annual workshops or infrequent refresher sessions. Between busy shifts and limited resources, there’s little time for ongoing learning - even though emergencies like postpartum hemorrhage require instant, practiced responses.
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Together with SolidarMed, UpLeap helped introduce a new approach: short, daily micro-trainings that fit directly into everyday work.
Starting with local champions
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The project began with an in-person workshop for nurses, midwives, doctors, and medical licentiates from several districts. These “local champions” represented their facilities and would later drive the rollout on the ground.
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During the workshop, participants got hands-on with the UpLeap platform - uploading Zambia’s local clinical guidelines, generating their own interactive training scenarios with the the help of UpLeap's AI engine, and testing them directly afterwards.
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Beyond clinical practice, the workshop also strengthened digital literacy: many participants had never worked with AI in a professional environment, yet within hours they were designing and discussing customized clinical training cases with their colleagues.
From workshop to wards
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After the training, the champions returned to their facilities and started organizing regular sessions using UpLeap. They ran onboarding sessions for colleagues, provided technical support, and encouraged daily micro-training.
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Within a few months, more than 600 healthcare workers were actively using UpLeap - individually or in small teams - across 20+ facilities. In many places, the UpLeap app is now part of training routines: short refreshers before shifts, scheduled team sessions, or quick reviews after emergencies.
Focus: obstetric emergencies
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The first set of scenarios focused on obstetric emergencies, such as postpartum hemorrhage or vaginal bleeding. These are high-stakes situations where confident, standardized responses can save lives.
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By practicing with localized micro-scenarios, midwives, nurses, and doctors strengthened both knowledge retention and team coordination. The digital format also made it easy to repeat and review cases whenever new staff joined or there was uncertainty in procedures.
“I led an UpLeap training for preceptors and staff in Chipata today. The session flowed with ease, and the technology was well received. Participants were enthusiastic to implement and asked for orientations at their own facilities. Thank you for the innovation.”
— Preceptor, Eastern Province, Zambia
A culture of continuous learning
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What began as a pilot has now evolved into a growing network of self-organized training routines. Healthcare professionals continue to create and share new scenarios, exchange feedback, and reinforce good clinical habits day by day.
The following video shows some impressions from the initial onboarding of local champions - including some celebrations after successful completion of the workshop.