Could global surgery overcome a decline in surgical cases?. (June 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Laverty, Robert B.; Jindal, Rahul M.
• Is Part Of: Annals of medicine and surgery. Volume 78(2022)
• Publication Date: 2022-06
• Subjects: Global surgery -- Surgical volume -- Minimal invasive surgery -- COVID 19 -- Reduction duty hours; ACGME Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education -- DHR duty-hour restrictions -- LMIC low and middle income countries -- HIC high income countries; Surgery -- Periodicals; Medicine -- Periodicals; General Surgery -- Periodicals; Education, Medical -- Periodicals; Periodicals; 617
• DOI: 10.1016/j.amsu.2022.103704
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2049-0801

Abstract

Highlights: There have been three distinct landmarks for the US surgical trainees leading to a decline in surgical volume and in open number of cases. Global surgery experiences have been adopted to expose trainees to surgical problems not routinely seen in the Global North. Global Surgery also exposes trainees to empathic and collaborative approaches. Benefits of global surgery to compensate for the decline in volume, variety and open surgical cases need to be studied through an academic, ethical, and economic lens. LMICs trainees could travel to HIC for research and clinical training in exchange for the skills and case volume that HIC trainees would obtain in LMICs.