One world, one standard of care
Our approach centers around the pivotal role of training in empowering surgeons and healthcare professionals across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We understand the pressing need for enhanced surgical skills development and have departed from the traditional model of surgical missions to make a profound impact on a larger scale. Through our commitment to training local surgeons, integrating Global Surgery education within the Dutch medical education system, and creating open-source digital learning materials, GSA is revolutionizing the way surgical care is delivered globally.
Basics of Burn Care
This course is for healthcare professionals who care for patients with burn injuries. It is designed to strengthen your teamwork and help you understand each other’s roles in supporting burn patients’ needs.
All healthcare workers who are members of a team treating burn patients, such as registered nurses, clinical officers and doctors, are welcome to join the course.
Basics of Open Fractures
This multi-day training program aim to equip healthcare professionals with essential knowledge and skills in managing open fractures, a critical aspect of surgical care. The course includes hand-on practical exercises on using external fixators to treat open fractures. The course is suitable for doctors treating patients with open fracture injuries.
Basics of Flaps
This course is intended to enhance comprehension of fundamental principles in local flap design. It is structured to instruct on the process of strategically planning a local skin flap to achieve the best outcome with minimal impact on the donor site, while considering both functional and aesthetic factors.
This course is suitable for a wide range of medical professionals, including plastic surgeons and those training in plastic surgery.
The eBooks have been developed in collaboration with contributors from different settings and with different backgrounds. They provided the opportunity to show practical examples from Tanzania, the Netherlands, Sierra Leone and Bangladesh. We are very thankful to everyone who supported this project including the Dutch Burns Foundation, Haydom Lutheran Hospital, and MLX. In particular, we would like to express our gratitude to all the patients who allowed us to show the treatment of their burn injuries as an example for health care workers to learn from, in order to improve the treatment for other patients in the future.
Disclaimer
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The content has been carefully created by the authors. The eBooks should not be interpreted as a replacement for (local) guidelines under any circumstances, but is solely for medical education. In the rapidly changing landscape of medicine changes in treatment are required, therefore the content is in accordance with the standards and information at the time of publishing. However, due to these changes the authors do not warrant that the information contained herein is accurate or complete and disclaim all responsibility for any errors or omissions for results attained by using the content of these eBooks. All illustrations, photos and videos are provided with references if necessary. Content without attribution is self-created by the authors or used under the “Public Domain” or “CC0” license, when attribution was not required.
