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Pawlak N, Dart C, Aguilar HS, Ameh E, Bekele A, Jimenez MF, Lakhoo K, Ozgediz D, Roy N, Terfera G, Ademuyiwa AO, Alayande BT, Alonso N, Anderson GA, Anyanwu SNC, Aregawi AB, Bandyopadhyay S, Banu T, Bedada AG, Belachew AG, Botelho F, Bua E, Campos LN, Dodgion C, Drejza M, Durieux ME, Dutta R, Erdene S, Vaz Ferreira R, Gathuya Z, Ghosh D, Jawa RS, Johnson WD, Khan FA, Navas Leon FJ, Long KL, Macleod JBA, Mahajan A, Maine RG, Malolos GZC, McClain CD, Nabukenya MT, Nthumba PM, Nwomeh BC, Ojuka DK, Penny N, Quiodettis MA, Rickard J, Roa L, Salgado LS, Samad L, Seyi-Olajide JO, Smith M, Starr N, Stewart RJ, Tarpley JL, Trostchansky JL, Trostchansky I, Weiser TG, Wobenjo A, Wollner E, Jayaraman S. Correction: Academic global surgical competencies: A modified Delphi consensus study. PLOS Glob Public Health 2023; 3:e0002414. [PMID: 37708095 PMCID: PMC10501557 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0002414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/16/2023]
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[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0002102.].
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Pawlak N, Dart C, Aguilar HS, Ameh E, Bekele A, Jimenez MF, Lakhoo K, Ozgediz D, Roy N, Terfera G, Ademuyiwa AO, Alayande BT, Alonso N, Anderson GA, Anyanwu SNC, Aregawi AB, Bandyopadhyay S, Banu T, Bedada AG, Belachew AG, Botelho F, Bua E, Campos LN, Dodgion C, Drejza M, Durieux ME, Dutta R, Erdene S, Ferreira RV, Gathuya Z, Ghosh D, Jawa RS, Johnson WD, Khan FA, Leon FJN, Long KL, Macleod JBA, Mahajan A, Maine RG, Malolos GZC, McClain CD, Nabukenya MT, Nthumba PM, Nwomeh BC, Ojuka DK, Penny N, Quiodettis MA, Rickard J, Roa L, Salgado LS, Samad L, Seyi-Olajide JO, Smith M, Starr N, Stewart RJ, Tarpley JL, Trostchansky JL, Trostchansky I, Weiser TG, Wobenjo A, Wollner E, Jayaraman S. Academic global surgical competencies: A modified Delphi consensus study. PLOS Glob Public Health 2023; 3:e0002102. [PMID: 37450426 PMCID: PMC10348592 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0002102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2023] [Accepted: 06/02/2023] [Indexed: 07/18/2023]
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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 and perioperative care. A diverse task force recruited experts from 22 countries to participate in both rounds of the Delphi process. Of the n = 59 respondents completing both rounds of iterative polling, 63% were from low- or middle-income countries. After two rounds of anonymous feedback, participants reached consensus on nine core competencies and 31 sub-competency objectives. The greatest consensus pertained to competency in ethics and professionalism in global surgery (100%) with emphasis on justice, equity, and decolonization across multiple competencies. This Delphi process, with input from experts worldwide, identified nine competencies which can be used to develop standardized academic global surgery and perioperative care curricula worldwide. Further work needs to be done to validate these competencies and establish assessments to ensure that they are taught effectively.
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- Natalie Pawlak
- Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
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- National Hospital Division of Paediatric Surgery, Abuja, Nigeria
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- University of Global Health Equity, Butaro, Rwanda
- Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- Department of Surgery, Hospital Universitario Mayor Mederi, Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, Colombia
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- Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- The George Institute for Global Health, New Delhi, India
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- Univ of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- Department of Surgery, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
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- Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, Oxford University Global Surgery Group, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Clinical Neurosciences, Clinical & Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- Chittagong Research Institute for Children Surgery, Chittagong, Bangladesh
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- Harvey E. Beardmore Division of Pediatric Surgery, Montreal Children’s Hospital, Montreal, Canada
- Hospital das Clinicas da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil
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- Busitema University Mbale Hospital, Mbale, Uganda
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- Faculty of Medical Sciences, Universidade de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil
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- Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- Specialty Trainee in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
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- Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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- NIHR Health Research Unit On Global Surgery, Christian Medical College, Ludhiana, India
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- Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California, United States of America
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- Univ of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya
- University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Global Surgery Fellow, WHO Collaboration Centre (WHOCC) for Research in Surgical Care Delivery in LMICs’, Mumbai, India
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- Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Program in Global Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Surgery, AIC Kijabe Hospital, Kijabe, Kenya
- Department of Plastic Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
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- Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
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- Branch for Global Surgical Care, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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- University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Interactive Research and Development (IRD) Global, Singapore, Singapore
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- University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Global Initiative for Children’s Surgery, Portland, Oregon, United States of America
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- Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana
- Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
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- Department of Surgery, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, United States of America
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- Peter MacCallum Cancer Center and University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Department of Surgery, Center for Global Surgery, University of Utah Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
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Ojuka DK, Olenja JM, Mwango'mbe NJ, Yang EB, Macleod JB. Perception of medical professionalism among the surgical community in the University of Nairobi: a mixed method study. BMC Med Educ 2016; 16:101. [PMID: 27039376 PMCID: PMC4818896 DOI: 10.1186/s12909-016-0622-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2015] [Accepted: 03/24/2016] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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BACKGROUND Professionalism defines the relationship between colleagues, patients and the society as a whole. Furthermore, being a social construct, professionalism is sophisticated to be regarded simply as a single concept across different cultural contexts. This study sought to explore how professionalism is conceptualized by the clinicians, students and patients in a teaching hospital in Kenya. METHODS A sequential mixed methods study was conducted among clinicians, students and patients at Kenyatta National Hospital on the surgical wards from March 1(st)-December 31(st), 2014. The first phase of the study involved focus group discussions (FGDs) of between 10-12 persons and individual in-depth interviews of senior faculty and patients. Grounded theory method was used for collecting perceptions of participants on professionalism. These views were then coded using Atlas 5.2, allowing the development of a questionnaire that provided the survey tool for the second phase of the study. For the questionnaire, response options utilized a 4-point Likert scale with a range from "strongly agree" to "strongly disagree". Factor analysis was used to analyse the responses to the survey. Internal reliability was determined by Cronbach's α. RESULTS Sixteen FGDs and 18 in-depth interviews were held with 204 clinicians, students and patients. A further 188 participants completed the questionnaire. Respect was the most frequently mentioned or picked component of professionalism during the interview and survey respectively, with 74.5 % of participants reporting "strongly agree". Factor analysis showed that 3 factors accounted for the majority of the variance in the items analysed; respect in practice, excellence in service and concern for the patient. The Cronbach's α for this analysis was 0.927. CONCLUSION The study cohort predominantly conceptualizes professionalism as relating to respect between colleagues and toward patients. Respect, being a cultural norm, should form part of the core curriculum of professionalism in order to be relevant for the Kenyan context.
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- Daniel Kinyuru Ojuka
- Department of Surgery, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, P. O. Box 19676-00202, Nairobi, Kenya.
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- School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Department of Surgery, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, P. O. Box 19676-00202, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Department of Medical Education, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya
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