AbstractAmoud University in Borama is located in the self‐declared state of Somaliland, in the Horn of Africa. Past conflicts and resulting economic hardship have led to a lack of local academic psychiatry faculty and resources. Amoud has been for some years partnering with voluntary faculty in the United Kingdom to teach psychiatry to its medical students through in‐person “teaching missions.” This was recently led by a Borama‐native psychiatry resident in Ethiopia. COVID‐19 added further hardships due to restrictions to travel and in‐person gatherings. These challenges also created the opportunity for the development of an innovative, international, hybrid (online onsite), self‐sustaining partnership model which has been successful in improving psychiatry teaching for undergraduate students in 2020–2021 and will continue in 2021–2022. An international, ‘online‐connected’ department of psychiatry comprising a primary care physician in Somaliland, three postgraduate trainees in Ethiopia and the United States, and three senior psychiatrists in the United Kingdom developed a local faculty‐led, hybrid‐delivered, dynamic curriculum (bedside teaching, in person and online lecturing) tha
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