Josh Tulley and Bex Hughes have been team members for GlobalSurg 3 at Walsall Manor Hospital. Here Josh guest blogs about his experience of being a collaborator for the study. When I first heard of GlobalSurg3 (GS3), I jumped at the opportunity to be a part of the collaboration, and recruited a colleague to [...]
Sara Al-Saqqa writes about the enthusiastic launch of GlobalSurg 3 in Palestine/Gaza Last year, the first meeting of GlobalSurg in Palestine had a maximum of 15 people. This year, I am proud to say that we had to bring extra chairs to the meeting room! Around 300 collaborators have registered for the GlobalSurg 3 study. [...]
Congratulations to Dr Brendan Berry winner of the GlobalSurg Research Prize at the 2017 Association of Surgeons in Training (AsiT) annual meeting held in April in Bournemouth, UK. In this guest blog Dr Berry describes his awarding project and the experience of conducting his research in South Indian. Can Three Dimensional (3D) Printing Technology [...]
Lauren Anders Brown guest blogs her experience filming in Rwanda with Globalsurg In 2016 the GlobalSurg team visited Rwanda to deliver a 2 day audit and research skills course at the University of Rwanda. The team were lucky enough to be joined by humanitarian film maker, Lauren Anders Brown, from the independent film company, Collaborate: [...]
I arrived in Rwanda in August 2016 after having been gone for over a year. The GlobalSurg2 project had been underway for some time, with multiple sites involved. I was impressed with how the local team leader had taken charge and organized the data collection. Working with the team leader, I took on the task [...]
- PaedSurg Africa is a collaboration of surgeons and allied health professionals throughout sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) collectively producing the largest prospective cohort study of paediatric surgery in this region of the world. - The study results will be used to help advocate for enhanced children's surgical services in SSA where they are desperately needed. [...]
Dr Ed Fitzgerald of the GlobalSurg steering committee was recently invited to guest blog about the GlobalSurg Collaboration on the Royal College of Surgeons website. Ed describes our innovative approach to crowd sourcing surgical outcomes data using social media to build and maintain an international community of researchers. Click here to read the full post [...]
From Soji Ademuyiwa in Nigeria The GLOBALSURG story in Nigeria has been like the proverbial seed that has grown to become a shrub and now hides the nests of birds and other flora and fauna. From a humble beginning of a contact with a researcher in Lagos, it grew to about 30+ members who contributed [...]
Globalsurg has spread to the tiny little corner of the earth that is the Outer Hebrides! Stornoway Globalsurg2 team, Rachel Bedford (left), Rebecca Irwin (right) and Ella Teasdale (inset) from the Western Isles Hospital, Isle of Lewis. They collected data in January but are now divided by the Minch as Ella returned to the mainland leaving the [...]
