Global Surgical Training Challenge Prototype Showcase

Ten teams of innovators will demonstrated their prototype modules that train psychomotor surgical skills during our online event 18th August 2021. You can watch the event below.

Around the world surgical practitioners spend their entire careers learning and perfecting techniques for interventions that vastly improve the lives of their patients.

This training can be both costly and resource intensive. Many practitioners in low resource settings are unable to access simulation-based training and rely on access to real patients.

The Global Surgical Training Challenge, funded by the Intuitive Foundation and developed with partners (the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Challenge Works, MIT Solve and Appropedia), has brought together multidisciplinary teams of innovators who have been working over the last several months to develop low-cost surgical training modules.

You will see how these cutting edge, low cost training resources can support the development of psychomotor skills for surgery through simulation and self-assessment and how the use of Appropedia, an open source platform, is creating a shift in the way training is delivered.

We are pleased to announce that Professor Abebe Bekele, University of Global Health Equity and Fellow of COSECSA and the American College of Surgeons will be giving the opening remarks.

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