SynthesisWorld journal of surgery2016
Systematic Review of Postgraduate Surgical Education in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
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28 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- North-South surgical training partnerships: a systematic review.Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie · 2020Pooled it
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- Exported students, imported surgeons: a narrative review of transnational surgical training and its impact on the surgical workforce of Solomon Islands.BMC surgery · 2025Review
- What makes a confident surgeon? Perspectives from surgical trainees and surgeons in Kenya, China, and Mali.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- Global Training in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Addressing Growing Challenges in IBD.Digestive diseases and sciences · 2025Review
- Surgical Training Profiling in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Peru, Ecuador, and Brazil.Cureus · 2025Article
- Virtual reality technology for surgical learning: qualitative outcomes of the first virtual reality training course for emergency and essential surgery delivered by a UK-Uganda partnership.BMJ open quality · 2024Article
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- Bilateral trauma case conferences: an approach to global surgery equity through a virtual education exchange.Global surgical education : journal of the Association for Surgical Education · 2023Article
- General Surgery: Requirements, Rationale, and Robust Results.Surgery journal (New York, N.Y.) · 2022Article
- No implant, no solution, lost cases to surgery: orthopedic trauma triage for surgery in an NGO hospital in Sierra Leone.Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery · 2022Article
- Design of a Novel Online, Modular, Flipped-classroom Surgical Curriculum for East, Central, and Southern Africa.Annals of surgery open : perspectives of surgical history, education, and clinical approaches · 2022Article
- An Online, Modular Curriculum Enhances Surgical Education and Improves Learning Outcomes in East, Central, and Southern Africa:Annals of surgery open : perspectives of surgical history, education, and clinical approaches · 2022Article
- An International Virtual Classroom: The Emergency Department Experience at Weill Cornell Medicine and Weill Bugando Medical Center in Tanzania.Global health, science and practice · 2021Article
- The perceived global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on doctors' medical and surgical training: An international survey.International journal of clinical practice · 2021Article
- Self-reported confidence and perceived training needs of surgical interns at a regional hospital in Ghana: a questionnaire survey.BMC medical education · 2020Article
- Integration and Sustainability of Electronic Surgical Logbooks in Sub-Saharan Africa.World journal of surgery · 2020Article
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Abstract
Surgical care is recognized as an important component of public health, however, many low- and middle- income countries (LMICs) are faced with a shortage of trained personnel. In response to this unmet need, many countries have developed local postgraduate training programs in surgery. This study aims to characterize general surgery postgraduate education in LMICs. PubMed, EMBASE, and Global Index Medicus databases were searched for articles related to postgraduate general surgery education in LMICs. Studies in other surgical specialties and those published prior to 1990 were excluded. Data were collected on the characteristics of postgraduate training programs. Sixty-four articles discussed postgraduate surgical education in LMICs. Programs in 34 different countries and 6 different regions were represented. Nine countries were low-income, 12 were low-middle-income, and 13 were upper-middle-income countries. Sixty-four articles described aspects of the local postgraduate training program. Prior to postgraduate training, residents complete an undergraduate medical degree with 19 programs describing a pre-training experience such as internship. Surgical curricula were broad-based to prepare trainees to work in low-resource settings. At the completion of postgraduate training, examination formats varied including oral, written, and clinical exams. Postgraduate general surgery programs ranged from 2.5 to 7 years. Postgraduate surgical education is one mechanism to increase surgical capacity in LMICs. Different strategies have been employed to improve surgical education in LMICs and learning from these programs can optimize surgical education across teaching sites.
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