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Developing Educational Opportunities for Trainees on Both Sides

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Ideally, the development of educational opportunities in global surgery addresses learning objectives for participants from both High Income Countries (HIC) and Low-Middle Income Countries (LMIC). Historically speaking, HIC have offered some undergraduate and postgraduate training opportunities to individuals from LMIC. However, in the context of “medical missions”, trainees from HIC typically gain easier access to LMIC, with little reciprocal benefit for trainees from their host countries. Also, given that many doctors from LMIC have not returned home after training in HIC, the overall benefits of training has been heavily weighted in favor of participants from HIC.

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  1. Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, College of Health Sciences, University of Abuja, Abuja, Nigeria

    Philip M. Mshelbwala MBBS, FWACS, FICS, FACS

  2. Division of Paediatric Surgery, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, M5G 1X8, Canada

    Georges R. Azzie MD, FRCSC

  3. Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Georges R. Azzie MD, FRCSC

  4. Department of Surgery and Pediatrics, Nationalwide Children’s Hospital, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43205, USA

    Benedict C. Nwomeh MD, MPH

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Correspondence to Philip M. Mshelbwala MBBS, FWACS, FICS, FACS .

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  1. Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Mamta Swaroop

  2. Oregon Health and Science Universit , PORTLAND, Oregon, USA

    Sanjay Krishnaswami

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Mshelbwala, P.M., Azzie, G.R., Nwomeh, B.C. (2016). Developing Educational Opportunities for Trainees on Both Sides. In: Swaroop, M., Krishnaswami, S. (eds) Academic Global Surgery. Success in Academic Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14298-2_11

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