Safe Surgical Care: Strategies during a Pandemic – Available Now
The UBC Branch for International Surgical Care, Continuing Professional Development and Extended Learning have developed a free, online course, Safe Surgical Care: Strategies during a Pandemic.
Bethune Round Table Conference on Global Surgery
The Bethune Round Table (BRT) is an annual interdisciplinary meeting aimed at addressing the challenges of providing accessible, high-quality surgical care to marginalized patients in low-resource settings. By bringing health professionals across a variety of disciplines together, we share strategies and create solutions for improving surgical care to these under-serviced regions. The 2020 Bethune Roundtable […]
MSF-UBC Partnership: Essential Skills Surgical Training Program
There is a shortage of surgical providers in Sub-Saharan Africa, and especially in countries that do not provide access to formal surgical training programs, such as South Sudan. One of the potential solutions to this shortage of providers is training and validating non-surgeon physicians (NSP) to perform surgical procedures, which is […]
September 2021 Intake for GCGSC and MGSC – Apply by July 4, 2021
Our online programs are for interdisciplinary surgical care professionals focused on addressing challenges and contributing to solutions in low-resource settings.
Publication – Surgical Task-Sharing to Non-specialist Physicians in Low- Resource Settings Globally: A Systematic Review of the Literature
MGSC student, Ryan Falk’s article Surgical Task-Sharing to Non-specialist Physicians in Low- Resource Settings Globally: A Systematic Review of the Literature has been published online in the World Journal of Surgery. Congratulations, Ryan! Falk, R., Taylor, R., Kornelsen, J. et al. Surgical Task-Sharing to Non-specialist Physicians in Low-Resource Settings Globally: A Systematic Review of the […]