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Aligning Open-Access Surgical Education With Need: Curriculum Coverage and Gaps in the United Nations Global Surgery Learning Hub (SURGhub)
A curriculum mapping study of 82 SURGhub courses against early training curricula found broad but uneven coverage. Surgery was the best covered, while about two thirds of the obstetrics and gynaecology and perioperative nursing domains were critical gaps.
World Journal of Surgery · August 2026
Barriers and Enablers to the Production of Open Access Medical Education Platforms: Scoping Review
A scoping review of free open access medical education platforms found quality control, poorly structured content and long-term funding to be common barriers, while validated quality tools and partnerships helped.
JMIR Medical Education · November 2025
Improving intersectoral collaboration between formal healthcare workers and traditional bonesetters: evaluation of a pilot collaborative orthopaedic trauma course in rural Tanzania
Health workers and traditional bonesetters in rural Tanzania took a joint course on fracture care. Knowledge scores rose and stayed higher a year later, and participants reported greater mutual respect.
BMC Medical Education · August 2025
Advancing Open-Access Education for the Surgical Team Worldwide: The Development and Rollout of the United Nations Global Surgery Learning Hub (SURGhub)
Describes the development and rollout of SURGhub, a low-bandwidth e-learning platform for the surgical team launched in 2023, and its early uptake by learners around the world.
World Journal of Surgery · June 2025
United Nations Global Surgery Learning Hub (SURGhub): Innovating Surgical Workforce Education in the 22 Arab Countries
An abstract on how SURGhub supports surgical workforce education across the 22 Arab countries, presented at the Arab Conference at Harvard.
Arab Conference at Harvard (abstract) · April 2025
E-learning Supporting Surgical Training in Low-Resource Settings
Reviews how e-learning supports surgical training in low-resource settings. Trainees value both local and external resources but face poor infrastructure, uneven content quality and a lack of material suited to their context.
Current Surgery Reports · April 2024
Mentoring approaches in a safe surgery program in Tanzania: Lessons learned during COVID-19 and recommendations for the future
Draws lessons from mentoring in the Safe Surgery 2020 programme in Tanzania's Lake Zone during COVID-19. In-person mentoring suited complex surgical skills, while virtual mentoring worked well for quality improvement and data use.
Surgery Open Science · July 2023
Surgical Training: Is Digital Tech Here to Stay?
How digital technologies and e-learning can support surgical training and how to ensure equitable access in resource-limited settings. The event also introduced plans for SURGhub.
Global Surgery Foundation, RCSI Institute of Global Surgery and UNITAR · April 2022