The 2 decade long postgraduate training partnership between McMaster, St. Joseph's International Outreach Program, Uganda and Haiti has expanded to include orthopedic, plastic, pediatric, general and thoracic surgery. An orthopedic team including UBC visits Uganda annually. Since 2015, McMaster's Chair of Surgery visited Uganda, McMaster surgeons led a laparoscopy workshop in Kampala, and a Ugandan orthopedic surgeon trained at McMaster. Several McMaster postgraduate trainees did surgical electives in Uganda. Orthopedic visits to Haiti now collaborate with Team Broken Earth.
Impact
Orthopedic skills, evidence-based surgery, and OR nursing workshops in Uganda have trained dozens of local surgeons and nurses to improve patient care. The collaboration has supported surgical faculty and service development in 3 Ugandan centres: Kampala, Mbarara and Gulu.
Student Experience
McMaster surgical residents experience supervised surgical training in low-resource settings and expand their cultural competencies.
Countries
Haiti, Uganda
Impact
Education, Global Partnerships
Institutional Partner(s)
UBC Department of Orthopedics, Canadian Association of Pediatric Surgeons, Canadian Association of General Surgeons, Canadian Network for International Surgery
Community Partner(s)
St. Joseph's International Outreach Program
Industry Partner(s)
Key Outcomes
Other
Sponsorship
Private
Sponsorship Details
St. Joseph’s International Outreach Program Uganda Sustainable Trauma Orthopaedic Program (USTOP), Team Broken Earth Charles Johnson Charitable Fund
