Student Spotlight: Marcel Abouassaly
Marcel Abouassaly is a pediatric orthopedic surgeon at Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is currently in his first year of the Master of Global Surgical Care (MGSC) program. Read on to learn more about Marcel’s experiences, what led him to MGSC, hisjourney in global surgical care, and more! What are some of […]
Publication Feature: Designing a Global Surgery Ethics Course Outline: A Learner’s Proposal
We’re excited to share a recent publication featuring Drs. Godfrey Sama Philipo and Esther Chin, both Master of Global Surgical Care alumni who are now instructors at the Branch, alongside collaborators from around the world. This article, published in the Journal of Global Surgery (ONE), focuses on developing a structured ethics course for global surgery. […]
Publication Feature: Who’s training tomorrow’s pediatric surgeons? A global review of pediatric surgery postgraduate training programs in low- and middle-income countries
We’re very proud to highlight an article by several members of the Global Surgery Lab! This study, which was recently published in the the Journal of Pediatric Surgery, aimed to examine the global landscape of pediatric surgery training in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The authors conducted an extensive grey literature review to identify formal […]
Publication Feature: International Consensus on Global Surgery Learning Objectives and Competencies
We’re very proud to highlight Dr. Roy Hilzenrat, MGSC alumnus. for his work on enhancing global surgery education! His study, which was recently published in the Annals of Surgery, aimed to achieve international consensus on core learning objectives for global surgery education. This Delphi consensus study defines 120 core learning objectives across 14 domains for […]
Publication Feature: VitalSurg: Outcomes From a Surgical Task-Shifting Training Program in a Humanitarian Context
Dr. Hannah Wild and members of the Global Surgery Lab, have recently published the results of a study to evaluate the second iteration of the Vital Surgery Training Program (VitalSurg) a task-shifting initiative designed to build local surgical capacity in surgical deserts by training generalist doctors to perform essential procedures. Implemented in partnership with Médecins […]