Global Surgery/ Medical Education

Overall goals

Support ongoing surgical education
Link up with Surgical Colleges in UK to run post-graduate course, possibility to eventually run courses in other specialties
Enhance and expand current surgical skills lab
Long term, hopefully have a two-way exchange programme set up for medical students & doctors

Achieved: Skills courses for consultants / registrars
Support for skills lab
Teaching for Registrars & Medical Students

Key UK Colleagues and Partners

My NHS hospital and Nuffield Health Glasgow Hospital have donated equipment
Very generous donation of stock from a major industry supplier – insisted on anonymity.
None yet, but dialoguing with RCPSG

International Partners

Consultant Surgeon, Department of General Surgery, Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital. Ile-Ife, Nigeria

Sustainable development goals

• SDG 3 - Good health and well-being
• SDG 4 - Quality education
• SDG 8 - Decent work and economic growth
• SDG 9 - Industry, innovation and infrastructure
• SDG 17 - Partnerships for the goals

Funding source

Currently self-funded

Project origin

Connection through another surgeon interested in Global Surgery – a US-based surgeon, who linked up together; then read some of the publications by Dr Adisa describing fantastic surgical innovations to allow pioneering work in very resource-limited healthcare environment. Initial connection on-line, then subsequent met up in Nigeria.

Evidence of need

Connection through another surgeon interested in Global Surgery – a US-based surgeon, who linked up together; then read some of the publications by Dr Adisa describing fantastic surgical innovations to allow pioneering work in very resource-limited healthcare environment. Initial connection on-line, then subsequent met up in Nigeria.

Project areas

Education
Service improvements

Project activities

Visits to teach on hands on skills courses, teaching undergraduate students in a grand round setting

Changes

Help establish regular courses, and support the fantastic work already being done
Help establish a well-kitted, skills lab constantly in use

Next steps

Try to set up a calendar for rolling courses
Involve Royal Colleges in educational programme

Challenges

Main issue is to make sure that any interaction is based on what the hospital and unit feel THEY want / need, and to understand cultural differences in how things are done, and the role of hierarchy / respect for elders in Nigerian context.

Mitigating challenges

Ease of getting time off, rather than annual leave.

Partnership principles

• respectful

Project gains

• leadership
• teamwork
• clinical
• academic
• resilience