Policy options for surgical mentoring: Lessons from Zambia based on stakeholder consultation and systems science.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Supervision by surgical specialists is beneficial because they can impart skills to district hospital-level surgical teams. The SURG-Africa project in Zambia comprises a mentoring trial in selected districts, involving two provincial-level mentoring teams. The aim of this paper is to explore policy options for embedding such surgical mentoring in existing policy structures through a participatory modeling approach.

Methods

Four group model building workshops were held, two each in district and central hospitals. Participants worked in a variety of institutions and had clinical and/or administrative backgrounds. Two independent reviewers compared the causal loop diagrams (CLDs) that resulted from these workshops in a pairwise fashion to construct an integrated CLD.

SUBMITTER: Broekhuizen H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8480833 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature