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Global Surgery Short Course

Programme details

This five-day course will run from Monday 9 September to Friday 13 September 2024. The course will run in Oxford in person.  

Schedule

Monday 9 September:

  • Beyond the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery: indicators of surgical, anaesthesia and obstetrics need and activity.
  • Equipping the surgical workforce in an age of rapid communication.

Tuesday, 10 September:

  • The journey to safer surgery: the challenges to effective delivery of surgical and anaesthesia and obstetrics care.
  • Research driving change; the opportunities and the questions to ask.

Wednesday 11 September:

  • The right people for the right job; contextually relevant task shifting.
  • Ethical issues in Global Surgery

Thursday 12 September:

  • Resource allocation and health inequity within planetary bounds
  • Working together developing cooperative partnerships.

Friday 13 September:

  • Working in new contexts
  • Advocacy in Global Surgery
  • Course summary and next steps

Please note this schedule is subject to change.

Course structure

Pre-course preparation - 10 hours

All participants will be given a list of relevant resources (websites, papers, videos etc). This will be accompanied by a series of questions to enable them to critically evaluate these resources systematically.

35 hours in person teaching.

The subjects are outlined in the schedule above and will include presentations from the course tutors and invited international speakers, interactive seminars, small group study and opportunities for both social and professional networking by the participants and faculty.

Student Feedback

  • 'FANTASTIC! So eye opening and thought provoking and genuinely a life/career changing event.' L. Clifton
  • 'I found the mixture of delegates from 23 countries, and both HICs and LMICs, This was something often no seen in other global surgery conferences I have been to, and it is/has been exceptionally valuable.' Melissa Wood, General Surgery Resident, University of Saskatchewan, Canada.
  • 'I have thoroughly enjoyed the course. It has opened my eyes to endless possibilities within global surgery and beyond.' Oreoluwa Bajomo, CTI Surgery
  • 'This course was highly relevant, not only on academic and intellectual levels, but emotional as well. The curiosity, wisdom, and thoughtful critiques in the room will be long felt. Thank you!' Sadie Bazur-Leidy, MPH. Program Administrator, American College of Surgeons.