Publication Feature: Building global surgical workforce capacity through academic partnerships
Zineb Bentousi and Anisa Nazir (past GCGSC student) recently published an article exploring how global surgery academic partnerships between institutions in high-income countries (HICs) and low-middle income countries can be a model of sustainable collaborations based on mutual interest. To read the full text, please visit here To read Anisa’s alumni spotlight, please visit here. […]
Publication Feature: Evaluation of Interventions Addressing Timely Access to Surgical Care in Low-Income and Low-Middle-Income Countries as Outlined by the LANCET Commission 2030 Global Surgery Goals: A Systematic Review
Catherine Binda, Irena Zivkovic and BISC Advisory Committee and Faculty Members Damian Duffy, Geoffrey Blair, and Robert Baird recently published an article evaluating interventions to address timely access to surgical care, using the six global surgery goals from the 2015 Lancet Commission on Global Surgery. To read the full text, please visit here. Abstract Background: […]
Publication Feature: Training low–middle‑income (LMIC) pediatric surgeons in a high‑income country (HIC) program
A team including BISC faculty and advisory committee members (Robert Baird, Geoffrey Blair, Damian Duffy, Phyllis Kisa) recently published an article exploring the effectiveness of their Low Income Country (LIC)-High Income Country (HIC) educational partnership. To read the full text, please visit here. Abstract: Background A popular paradigm to support surgical education for low- […]
Publication Feature: Lessons from developing, implementing and sustaining a participatory partnership for children’s surgical care in Tanzania
Godfrey S. Philipo (past MGSC student) recently published an article exploring the lessons from developing, implementing and sustaining a participatory partnership for children’s surgical care in Tanzania. To read the full text, please visit here.
Surgical Task-Sharing to Non-specialist Physicians in Low-Resource Settings Globally: A Systematic Review of the Literature
Dr. Ryan Falk, co-instructor of SURG 518, along with colleagues recently published an article that seeks to explore where, across all country income groups, NSPs are providing surgical services and what additional surgical training, if any, is available in each identified country. To read the full text, please visit here.