Once again Professor Sherry M. Wren, MD, FACS will be running an International Humanitarian Surgical Skills Course at Stanford University. The next course is February 23 and 24, 2019. More information is available here.
The LEARNING OBJECTIVES are:
At the conclusion of the course, the participants should be able to:
• Demonstrate the procedural steps for the following:
– Fracture management
– Cesarean section
– Post-partum hemorrhage
– Treatment of tubal pregnancy
– Wound/burn management
– Skin grafts
– Emergent burr holes
– Hand injuries
– Orthopedic dislocations
– Tendon repairs
– Low resource anesthetic techniques
– Management of tropical surgical diseases
– Intrauterine evacuation
– Techniques for difficult deliveries and cesarean section
– Emergency cesarean hysterectomy
– Primary tissue inguinal hernia repair
• EVALUATE the influence of resource factors on surgical decision-making in low resource environments and tailor care to the specific setting.
To learn more about international humanitarian surgery we highly recommend getting a copy of Operation Health: Surgical care in the developing world.
If you are interested in working for a group like Doctors Without Borders, then pick up a copy of Operation Crisis: Surgical care in the developing world during conflict and disaster.
Both books are available directly from Johns Hopkins University Press or from Amazon.
Operation Health: A series of books on surgery and global health from Johns Hopkins University Press 