Partnering to build surgical capacity in low-resource settings: a qualitative study of Canadian global surgeons.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This qualitative study aimed to explore the perspectives of Canadian global surgeons with experience developing surgical education partnerships with low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) for the purpose of identifying factors for success.

Design

A purposive sample of leaders from global surgery programmes at Canadian Faculties of Medicine participated in virtual semi-structured interviews. A six-phase thematic analysis was performed using a constructivist lens on verbatim transcripts by three independent researchers. Key factors for success were thematically collated with constant comparison and inter-investigator triangulation in NVivo software until theoretical saturation was reached.

Participants

Fifteen surgeons, representing 11 subspecialties at 6 C

SUBMITTER: Khalid MU 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10040043 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature