OXFORD GLOBAL SURGERY COURSE 

Sadly the scheduled Oxford Global Surgery course for 14-18 September 2020 has been POSTPONED until 2021 due to the pandemic. You can still find out about the course and sign up to the mailing list here:

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Events at the Nuffield Department of Medicine Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health

Surgical Grand Rounds, Friday 7 February 2020

Dr Cian Wade, 'Neonatal pain management in low and middle income countries' and Dr Harshjeet Singh Bal,  'Snakebites and surgery'

Seminar, Thursday 23 January 2020

Dr Ibtisam Salim spoke on 'Women's Health in Protracted Refugee Setting; The Good, the Bad and the Ugly' and Dr Anita Makins spoke on 'FIGO projects and Global Women’s Health'

GASOC Journal Club. Wednesday 15 January 2020

Dr Hilary Edgcombe presented on ‘Training non-physician anaesthetists in sub-Saharan Africa: a qualitative investigation of providers’ perspectives'

Seminar, Tuesday 19 November 2019

Dr Tongai Chitsamatanga FCS Ortho (ECSA), ‘Reflections on trauma and orthopaedic care in Zimbabwe and UK’ 

Dr Zineb Bentounsi, 'Advocacy in Global Surgery’ 

Grace Le, ‘Scaling up safe surgery in district-level hospitals in Zambia, Malawi and Tanzania - SURG-Africa project’ 

OUGSG at Surgical Grand Round, Friday 8 November 2019, Prof Chris Lavy speaking on “Setting up a public-private partnership in elective surgery in Zimbabwe”.

OUGSG Termly Meeting, Tuesday 2 July 2019

1. Dr Sudha Jayaraman: “A global surgery career and thoughts on the future”  

2:  Dr Andrew Ferguson: Gaza: a health system stumbling from crisis to catastrophe

OUGSG at Surgical Grand Rounds, 31 May 2019

1. Dr Anita Makins, 'FGM: a global perspective'

2. Dr Katy Newell-Jones, ‘Medicalisation of female genital cutting: decision making dilemmas and competing priorities’

OUGSG Termly Meeting: Thursday 28 March 2019

1. Trauma Care in Laos: The unintended consequences of short training courses: Rebecca Inglis

2. A "Useful(?) Idiot" Goes to Syria: Tony Jefferis

3. Poetry for Peace - The Cracked Jug: Shakira Morar

Oxford Surgical Grand Rounds: Friday 1 March 2019

Title: ‘Innovations to improve outcome and patient safety in low and middle income countries’. Speakers: Professor Shafi Ahmed (Associate Dean at Barts and the London Medical School) and Ms Sarah Kessler (Producer of award-winning documentary ‘The Checklist Effect’)

Oxford University Global Surgery Course, 10-14 September 2018

This 5-day course is for health professionals interested in expanding their knowledge and understanding of current developments in global surgical and anaesthesia, who would like to explore ways of further involvement in training, research and surgical systems strengthening and potential global surgery career pathways.

Information about the recent 2018 course here - dates for 2019 to be announced.

GASOC Conference, 14 September 2018

OUGSG is co-hosted the 2018 GASOC conference on Friday 14 September at the Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford, in conjunction with the last day of the Oxford Global Surgery Course. Find out more here.

Oxford Global Surgery Networking Meeting

Thursday 7 June 2018, 6-7pm, Shobhana Nagraj of the George Institute, “Technology Implementation in Healthcare in Low and Middle Income Settings” & Robin Youngs, Consultant Otolaryngologist and UK Lead for Global ENT, "Deafness: the  global burden,  with special reference to  Nepal and Myanmar”. 

Surgical Grand Rounds

Friday 18 May 2018: Ms Shannon Gunawardana, Ms Kathryn Ford and Prof Kokila Lakhoo, 'Global Surgery: Paediatric Surgical Team'. See video here on YouTube.