School of Surgeons E-Learning Platform
Kids Operating Room have launched a new learning platform which will transform training for paediatric surgeons in Africa. The platform has been built by the Institute of Global Surgery at Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in partnership with over 70 African surgeons from the College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa (COSECSA) and the West African College of Surgeons (WACS).
School of Surgeons E-Learning Platform
It is Africa’s first comprehensive paediatric surgery e-learning platform, aligning curricula and helping drive up the quality and skill set of new graduates able to specialise in paediatric surgery, which faces a drastic skills shortage and huge unmet demand.
The e-learning programme is unique for two key reasons. Firstly, because it unites the training programmes of the continent’s two main surgical colleges, something that has never happened before. Secondly, by enrolling local surgeons to write the content, the first time an e-learning programme for children’s surgery in Africa has been written by African surgeons, it is hoped that there will be an increase in the number of trainees who graduate and that all of them will be of an even higher standard thanks to regular access to the platform.
The free to use service enables trainees enrolled in surgical college training programmes to have direct access to online content and tutorials, creating a space for trainees to learn surgical techniques, management and the underlying sciences.
