Overview
- Provides a concrete toolkit for approaching global surgery in austere settings
- Describes how to develop bidirectional partnerships and sustainable programs
- Discusses how to teach teamwork and leadership skills
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About this book
Few books have been published to assist local and visiting clinicians in addressing opportunities to expand surgical care in low- and middle-income countries. With contributions from international experts and surgical leaders, this book serves as a valuable resource for local and visiting faculty, trainees, and students in their endeavors to deliver surgical services in existing facilities as well as to develop new infrastructures for specialized surgical care. This book presents an anthology of important lessons gleaned from the experiences of participants in selected academic global surgery centers and existing partnerships all over the world. Contributing authors summarize methods to build partnerships and expand capacity with a focus not only on how to, but also on what worked, what didn’t work, and what could be done differently. They discuss specific examples ranging from implementing colon cancer screening to building a transplant program. In addition, several chapters describe approaches to diagnosis and management of specific surgical pathologies in limited resource environments as a complement to standard surgical texts in general surgery, thoracic surgery, neurosurgery, urology, obstetrics and gynecology, orthopedics, and surgery for contractures and burns.
Practical and user-friendly, Global Surgery encapsulates the increasing enthusiasm of young faculty, trainees and medical students to improve access to surgical care in the world’s low- and middle-income countries.
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Table of contents (46 chapters)
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Front Matter
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System Strengthening
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Front Matter
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Beth Hochman, MD, FACS, Associate Professor of Surgery, Associate Program Director of General Surgery Residency Program, Co-Director of Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Divisions of General Surgery and Critical Care Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Global Surgery
Book Subtitle: How to Work and Teach in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Editors: Mark A. Hardy, Beth R. Hochman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28127-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-28126-6Published: 25 July 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-28129-7Published: 26 July 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-28127-3Published: 24 July 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 594
Number of Illustrations: 43 b/w illustrations, 246 illustrations in colour
Topics: Surgery