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MSF Hospital in Tabarre, Haiti: Why a Field General Surgery Fellowship Is Necessary by Gumbs, Andrew A. (author);Anciaux, Dominique (author);Dezard, Ulrick (author);Mangurat, Laelle (author);Richme, Rolph (author);Olibrice, William H. (author);Jean, Berldine (author);Allaire, Emilie (author);LeToquart, Jean-Pierre (author) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Recently, the Hospital at Tabarre in Port-au-Prince Haiti was reopened by the Operational Center of Paris—Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). This hospital is now purely a Trauma Center staffed by five national general surgeons and five orthopedic surgeons. MSF hopes that the new trauma focus of Tabarre Hospital and the presence of a full complement of experienced national surgeons can enable this site to become one of the training sites for exptriate surgeons on their first humanitarian mission with MSF. The general surgical case charts from the first 3 months after the reopening of the hospital were retrospectively reviewed. All procedures done by the general surgical department in the operating room theatre were registered and short and long-term results analyzed. The Hospital at Tabarre has a very high rate of penetrating traumas compared to other MSF hospitals, and seems ideally suited to train expatriate surgeons during their first missions in the field with MSF because of the experience of the National surgical staff. Additionally, it is felt that a longer Field General Surgery fellowship can and should be developed within MSF to ensure that the next generation of general surgeo

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Author

Gumbs, Andrew A. (author);Anciaux, Dominique (author);Dezard, Ulrick (author);Mangurat, Laelle (author);Richme, Rolph (author);Olibrice, William H. (author);Jean, Berldine (author);Allaire, Emilie (author);LeToquart, Jean-Pierre (author)

Publisher

MDPI AG

Published

2021

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction