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Record W2036370181 · doi:10.1503/cjs.028911

Surgical education at Weill Bugando Medical Centre: supplementing surgical training and investing in local health care providers

2013· review· en· W2036370181 on OpenAlexvenueaboutno aff
K Mitchell, Geofrey Giiti, Vihar Kotecha, Alphonce B Chandika, Kane O. Pryor, Roger Härtl, Japhet M Gilyoma

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of Surgery · 2013
Typereview
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicGlobal Health and Surgery
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineCurriculumOfficerTanzaniaHealth careMedical educationEconomic shortageNursingGovernment (linguistics)

Abstract

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Global surgery initiatives increasingly are focused on strengthening education and local health care systems to build surgical capacity. The goal of this education project was to support local health care providers in augmenting the surgical curriculum at a new medical school, thus promoting long-term local goals and involvement. Working with local surgeons, residents, and medical and assistant medical officer students, we identified the most common surgical conditions presenting to Weill Bugando Medical Centre in Mwanza, Tanzania, and the areas of greatest need in surgical education. We developed an 8-week teaching schedule for undergraduate students and an electronic database of clinical surgery topics. In addition, we started teaching basic surgical skills in the operating theatre, bridging to an official and recurring workshop through a supporting international surgery organization. The medical and assistant medical officer students reported increased satisfaction with their clinical surgery rotations and mastery of key educational subjects. The initiation of an Essential Surgical Skills workshop through the Canadian Network for International Surgery showed students had improved comfort with basic surgical techniques. Short-term surgical missions may appear to fill a void in the shortage of health care in the developing world. However, we conclude that global health resources are more appropriately used through projects giving ownership to local providers and promoting education as a foundation of development. This results in better coordination among local and visiting providers and greater impact on education and long-term growth of health care capacity. Les initiatives internationales en ce qui concerne la chirurgie sont de plus en plus axées sur le renforcement des programmes de formation et des systèmes de soins de santé locaux pour consolider les capacités dans ce domaine. L’objectif de ce projet éducatif était d’aider les professionnels de la santé locaux à enrichir le programme de chirurgie d’une nouvelle faculté de médecine et de favoriser ainsi l’atteinte des objectifs et une meilleure participation à long terme à l’échelle locale. En travaillant avec des chirurgiens, des résidents, des étudiants en médecine et de futurs aides-médecins locaux, nous avons recensé les chirurgies les plus fréquentes au Centre médical Weill Bugando à Mwanza à la Tanzanie, et les domaines de la chirurgie où les besoins de formation sont les plus grands. Nous avons mis sur pied un calendrier d’enseignement échelonné sur 8 semaines pour les étudiants et une base de données électronique sur les différents types de chirurgie clinique. Nous avons également commencé à enseigner les techniques chirurgicales de base au bloc opératoire, en parallèle avec un atelier officiel récurrent, grâce au soutien d’une association internationale de chirurgie. Les étudiants en médecine et les futurs aides-médecins se sont dits plus satisfaits de leur stage de chirurgie clinique et de leur maîtrise des principaux enjeux didactiques. Le lancement d’un atelier sur les compétences chirurgicales de base, rendu possible grâce au Réseau canadien pour la chirurgie internationale, a montré que les étudiants se sentent plus à l’aise avec les techniques chirurgicales de base. Les missions chirurgicales de courte durée peuvent sembler combler une lacune dans les pays en développement où les soins de santé sont insuffisants. Toutefois, nous concluons que les ressources en santé internationale sont utilisées de manière plus appropriée dans le cadre de projets qui responsabilisent les fournisseurs de soins locaux et favorisent leur formation comme base du développement. Cela donne lieu à une meilleure coordination entre les professionnels locaux et les coopérants et exerce un impact plus grand sur la formation et la croissance des capacités en matière de soins de santé à long terme.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.018
Threshold uncertainty score0.059

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0180.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.072
GPT teacher head0.349
Teacher spread0.277 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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