Building a Sustainable Global Surgery Nonprofit Organization at an
                        Academic Institution

Frisella, Margaret M.

doi:10.1016/j.aogh.2016.09.005

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“…Over 5 billion people lack access to adequate surgical and anesthesia care across the globe, the majority in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) [12][13][14]. This inequity is far-reaching and it has been shown that a significant percentage of the global disease burden is due to surgical conditions: the World Health Organization (WHO) reports 11%, and some contemporary estimates are as high as 30% [11][12][13]15,16]. This uptrend of surgical burden will likely continue as the world continues to industrialize.…”

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Genitourinary reconstructive surgery curriculum and postgraduate training program development in the Caribbean

DeLong

Virasoro

2021

Société Internationale D’Urologie Journal

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Objectives: To describe the development of a genitourinary reconstructive fellowship curriculum and the establishment of the first genitourinary reconstructive and pelvic floor postgraduate training program in the Caribbean. Methods: In an effort to respond to the need for specialty-trained reconstructive urologists in the Dominican Republic, we developed an18-month fellowship program to train local surgeons. The process began with creation of a curriculum and partnership with in-country physicians, societies, hospitals, and government officials. We sought accreditation via a well-established local university, and fellowship candidates were selected. A database was maintained to track outcomes. Subjective and objective reviews were performed of the fellows. Results: The first fellow graduated in 2018, the second in 2020, and the third is currently in training. The curriculum was created and implemented. The fellowship has been successfully integrated into the health system, and the fellows performed 199 and 235 cases, respectively, during the program, completing all rotations successfully. They have been appointed to the national health system. Both graduates are now docents in the program and in the public system. Additional staff including radiologists, radiology technicians, nurses, urology residents (both Dominican and American), urology attendings, operating room staff, and anesthesia residents were trained as a result of the program. Conclusions: To our knowledge, this is the first fellowship of its kind in the Caribbean. A novel curriculum was created and implemented, and the first 2 fellows have successfully completed all rotations. This training model may be transferable to additional sites.

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Genitourinary reconstructive surgery curriculum and postgraduate training program development in the Caribbean

DeLong

Virasoro

2021

Société Internationale D’Urologie Journal

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Surgical outreach for the Americas: a self-sustainable model for partnership and education

Eltahir,

Oduyale,

Frisella

et al. 2024

Surg Endosc

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Capacity-building partnerships for surgical post-graduate training in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review of the literature with exploratory thematic synthesis

Voss

Swart²,

Abel

et al. 2020

Health Policy and Planning

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In recent years, international surgical programmes have moved away from vertical service delivery and towards collaborative, capacity-building partnerships. The aim of this review was to provide a map of the current literature on international surgical training partnerships together with an exploration of factors influencing their implementation. Three bibliographic databases were searched for peer-reviewed reports of surgical training partnerships between organizations in high- and low or middle-income countries to July 2018. Reports were sorted in an iterative fashion into groups of similar programmes, and data were extracted to record the intervention strategies, context, financing, reported results and themes around implementation. Eighty-six reports were grouped into five types of programme: full residency training, bi-institutional twinning partnerships, diagonal/sub-specialist programmes, focused interventions or courses and programmes using remote support. Few articles were written from the perspective of the low-middle income partner. Full residency programmes and some diagonal/sub-specialist programmes report numbers trained while twinning partnerships and focused interventions tend to focus on process, partners’ reactions to the programme and learning metrics. Two thematic networks emerged from the thematic synthesis. The first made explicit the mechanisms by which partnerships are expected to contribute to improved access to surgical care and a second identified the importance of in-country leadership in determining programme results. Training partnerships are assumed to improve access to surgical care by a number of routes. A candidate programme theory is proposed together with some more focused theories that could inform future research. Supporting the development of the surgical leadership in low- and middle-income countries is key.

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Building a Sustainable Global Surgery Nonprofit Organization at an Academic Institution

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Genitourinary reconstructive surgery curriculum and postgraduate training program development in the Caribbean

Genitourinary reconstructive surgery curriculum and postgraduate training program development in the Caribbean

Surgical outreach for the Americas: a self-sustainable model for partnership and education

Capacity-building partnerships for surgical post-graduate training in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review of the literature with exploratory thematic synthesis

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