Designing a contextually appropriate surgical training program in low-resource settings: The Botswana experience

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1486-1491

  Mutabdzic, Dorotea ^a   Bedada, Alemayehu G ^b   Bakanisi, Balisi ^a,b,c   Motsumi, Joseph ^b,c   Azzie, Georges ^a,c,d  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b PRINCESS MARINA HOSPITAL   (Botswana)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA   (Botswana)

^d HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOTSWANA; CURRICULUM; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL MODEL; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICS; SURGERY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BOTSWANA; CURRICULUM; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 84879799878     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-012-1731-9     Document Type: Article

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