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Meet Nichole – Lifebox’s new Safe Surgery Fellow
Tell us a bit about yourself – what’s your background, and why did you join the Lifebox team? I’m currently a general surgery resident at the University of California, San Francisco. After graduating from college and earning my Masters in…
Summiting Kilimanjaro to Support Safer Surgery
How did you become passionate about promoting safe surgery and anesthesia? [EF] Five years ago this month I was fortunate start a Fellowship with the Lifebox Foundation, working to improve patient safety in global surgery and anesthesia…
Exciting opportunity in sterile processing training
Lifebox and our partner SPECT are looking for a volunteer to assist with an educational development project to support surgical instrument processing practices. The project involves developing teaching tools for inclusion in a modular toolkit for individuals in low and middle income countries,…
Project countries’ health infrastructure
Whilst there have been improvements in health services and systems in the region, rural populations still have difficulty accessing basic health services. In Guatemala, it is estimated that basic health and nutrition services meet only 54% of the needs of…
Lifebox-SFGH Journal Club: Challenges of Post-Surgical Follow-up in Rural Africa
The Lifebox-Students for Global Health University Representatives scheme is a unique opportunity for UK-based medical students to gain insight into the critical field of global surgery and health. I decided to join the programme to…
Mortgage or Mongolia: London to Beijing Bike Ride
Cycling from London to China is a huge task, what inspired you to undertake such a challenge? Simon and I met in London three years ago. One of my earliest memories, is him telling me he was cycling from London…
Exciting opportunity in Tanzania
We’re excited to open recruitment to our 6-month Fellowship at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC) in Tanzania to start in February 2019. This is open to anaesthetic trainees (ST5 or above) or consultant anaesthetists (current or retired) keen…
Lifebox-SFGH Journal Club: Global Neurosurgery
The Lifebox-Students for Global Health scheme is about inspiring and leading medical students in educating others on the wider global surgery issues that may not be covered in their medical curriculums. As part of this, a group of reps from…
10 years of Checklist in the British Journal of Surgery
In the leading article of this month’s British Journal of Surgery, Dr Tom Weiser and Dr Alex Haynes, authors of the landmark Checklist pilot study, explore how this seemingly-simple piece of paper has been proven to reduce surgical…
A decade of safer surgery around the world
The Checklist is at the heart of Lifebox’s work to make surgery and anaesthesia safer in low-resource settings – and while uptake and impact can be extremely challenging, the Checklist’s transformational role in the global safe surgery…
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