Over the past decade it has become increasingly recognized that poor access to safe anesthesia and surgery is a major contributor to global morbidity and mortality. We have become increasingly aware of the disproportionate focus on communicable disease echoing the famous quote of Paul Farmer “Surgery is the neglected stepchild of global health”. Among other organizations, The Institute of Health Metrics and the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery have shown the paucity of global safe surgical and anesthetic services. Anesthesia will play a major role in correcting this global epidemic in the international health and Public health arena.
It is also becoming apparent, that there is an increasing enthusiasm among anesthesia residents to help assist in international health efforts. We also know that providing safe effective aid is difficult and can be emotionally taxing. The Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine at Queen's University is therefore developing an international health curriculum to help assist residents with their international health interest and pursuits.
Queen's University and Haramaya University (Ethiopia) Partnership
CASIEF
- Dr. Froese - Report from the Philippines, Part II - February 11, 2012
- Dr. Froese - Report from the Philippines, Part I - February 4, 2012
- Dr. Parlow's: REPORT FROM RWANDA (2008) , Dean's Blog, 2012 and link to CASIEF
- Dr. Froese - Report from Nepal, Part I- March 3, 2011
- Dr. Froese - Report from Nepal, Part II- March 12, 2011
- Dr. Froese - Report from Nepal, Part III - March 21, 2011
- Dr. Froese - Report from the Philippines, Part I - January 23, 2011
- Dr. Froese - Report from the Philippines, Part II- January 27, 2011
- Dr. Froese - Report from the Philippines, Part III- February 4, 2011
- Dr. Froese - Report from Cambodia, Part I- October 26, 2010
- Dr. Froese - Report from Cambodia, Part II - October 31, 2010
- Dr. Froese - Report from the Philippines - Part I- January 9, 2010
- Dr. Froese - Report from the Philippines - Part II - January 15, 2010
- Dr. Froese - Report from the Philippines - Part III - January 23, 2010
- Dr. Froese - Report from the Philippines - Part IV - January 31, 2010
- Former resident Kara Gibson in Haiti - January 2010
- Dr. Froese - Report from the Philippines - Part V - February 6, 2010
- Dr Zamora in Afghanistan:
- Article on Dr. Zamora in Afghanistan: “At the Crossroads of Destiny” by Steve Fortin (The Maple Leaf 31 March 2010)
- Dr. Froese - Report from Nepal - Part I- March 2, 2009
- Dr. Froese - Report from Nepal - Part II - March 9, 2009
- Dr. Froese - Report from Nepal - Part III - March 16, 2009
- Dr. Froese - Report from the Philippines - Part I - January 24, 2009
- Dr. Froese - Report from the Philippines - Part II- January 30, 2009
- Dispatch from the medical front: Khandahar arrival. Canadian Medical Association Journal. 2009 Mar 31;180(7): E8.
- Dispatch from the medical front: The best care anywhere. Canadian Medical Association Journal. 2009 Apr 14;180(8): E16-7.
- Dispatch from the medical front: Homeward bound. Canadian Medical Association Journal. 2009 May 12;180(10): E38.
- Dr. Froese - Report from Cambodia - Part I - November 10, 2008
- Dr. Froese - Report from Cambodia - Part II- November 18, 2008
- Dr. Froese - Report from Cambodia - Part III - November 21, 2008
- Dr. Parlow - Report from Rwanda - February 2008