Academic global surgical competencies: A modified Delphi consensus study.

ABSTRACT: Academic global surgery is a rapidly growing field that aims to improve access to safe surgical care worldwide. However, no universally accepted competencies exist to inform this developing field. A consensus-based approach, with input from a diverse group of experts, is needed to identify essential competencies that will lead to standardization in this field. A task force was set up using snowball sampling to recruit a broad group of content and context experts in global surgical and perioperative care. A draft set of competencies was revised through the modified Delphi process with two rounds of anonymous input. A threshold of 80% consensus was used to determine whether a competency or sub-competency learning objective was relevant to the skillset needed within academic global surgery an

SUBMITTER: Pawlak N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10348592 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature