Catalogue
Intersectional Surgical workshop-Abidjan
ISTP Programme Info
Key Details
Overall Objective
- The overall objective of this program is to improve the surgical skills of MSF surgeons and medical doctors with surgical skills and thus increase the safety and quality of surgical care for MSF patients.
Organizational Objectives
- Improve the surgical skills of MSF surgeons and doctors with surgical skills to the competencies required to function in MSF hospitals
- Improve access to relevant surgical training for surgeons and medical doctors with surgical skills in French-speaking project countries in Africa
Learning Objectives
Learners will learn basic techniques for:
- Simple abdominal and thoracic interventions
- Craniotomy
- management of closed and open fractures
- skin graft and local flaps
- Hand surgery
- Fasciotomy and amputation
- Difficult caesarean section
- Postpartum haemorrhage
- 3rd/4th Perineal tear
Your Profile
- General surgeon or medical doctor with surgical skills*
- Locally recruited staff should have 6 months of experience with MSF.
Methodology
Mode Of Delivery
The Abidjan Surgery Workshop will take place at the Anatomy Laboratory of the Faculty of Medicine, Felix Houphouet Boigny University, Abidjan for 5 days. It will consist of theoretical content and practical rotational work groups on fresh cadavers and plastic mannequins.
What you would need
Requirements
Requirements
- Fluent in French
- Participants in between missions will be expected to be fully available during training hours
- To have a personal email address (Not MSF position email address)