Teaching Modules
GICS member Sarah Davidson is compiling a database of courses being offered in LMICs. The database includes courses being run by HIC practitioners for those planning to work in LMIC environments. Different courses might be tailored more to incoming HIC practitioners or to local LMIC practitioners, depending on the aim of that particular course. The database would hopefully be both a resource for people running courses so as to avoid duplication and for potential attendees wanting to see what is being offered.
Please email Sarah Davidson if you would like to add courses to the database.
Hugh Greenwood BAPS neonatal skills course
Organisation: British Association of Paediatric Surgeons
Organisers: Tony Lander, Haitham Dagash, Kokila Lakhoo
Location: COSECSA (every year), PAPSA (every 2 years)
Content: Neonatal skills modules for training (bowel anastamosis, duodenal atresia model, pyeloplasty model, tracheo-oesophageal atresia model, gastrostomy model. Animal tissue used for model creation. More info and manual on BAPS website.
BAPS Minimally Invasive Course
Organisation: British Association of Paediatric Surgeons
Course organiser: Niyi-ade-ajayi
Content: Basic laparoscopic skills and 5 basic conditions
Target audience: Paediatric surgery trainees
Where offered: PAPSA every 2 years
DGH Providers Course
Organisation: Royal College of Surgeons, GICS
Organisers: Vrisha Madhuri, Richard Stewart, Kokila Lakhoo
Target Audience: Adult anaesthetist, general surgeon, orthopaedic surgeon
Location: Vellore with plans to expand to other locales (twice yearly)
Content: Train secondary level hospital adult teams to perform safe basic surgery in children
BAPS Colorectal Course
Organisation: Pan-African Pediatric Surgery Association
Organisers: Richard Wood, Chris Taylor
Where offered: PAPSA (every 2 years)
Content: Course on all colorectal children’s conditions with emphasis on Hirschsprung’s disease and anorectal malformations
Vietnam Pediatric Acute Surgical Support (PASS) Course
Organiser: IPSAC-VN (International Pediatric Specialist Alliance for the Children of Vietnam)
Organiser: Ai-Xuan Holterman
Content: Standardised 2.5 day course on basic pediatric surgery skills. The course teaches fundamentals in trauma and surgical emergency assessment, stabilization, management and transport of acutely ill infants and children.
Target audience: Surgeons, pediatricians, and nurses in provincial hospitals. The goal is to increase the competency of health care providers from District Hospitals in Vietnam where advanced pediatric surgical specialty care is lacking, and to promote the development of an infrastructure of training and patient care for pediatric surgical emergencies.
World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists
The WFSA currently offers several courses to improve quality and safety of anesthesia in LMICs:
- Safer Anesthesia from Education (SAFE) Courses
- Essential Pain Management Courses
- Simulation Training
- Teacher Training Courses
- SAFE OR