Subspecialties | COA Global Surgery (COAGS)
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On April 30th, students and young professionals will come together to discuss various pressing topics from navigating global geopolitics to launching a career in refugee health. The day will be full of transformative insights and networking with the leaders shaping the future of global health, peace, environmental sustainability and migration. This event will take place at the Balsillie School of International Affairs at the University of Waterloo.
Unable to attend in-person? You can also join virtually at half the price! For more information on sessions and speakers, click here.
7:00 am ET, May 4, 2026
This engaging webinar will bring together global perspectives and real-world experiences in trauma and disaster response training (TDTR). You’ll hear from speakers in Nepal, Senegal, and Palestine, who will share how TDTR has been adapted and implemented in their local contexts.
We’ll also have insights from the Global Surgery Foundation, offering a broader view on advancing global surgery and expanding access to trauma training through collaboration.
The session will wrap up with a live Q&A, giving you the chance to interact directly with speakers and explore practical takeaways.
Register Here
COAGS proudly presented the webinar entitled ‘Orthopaedic Practice in Under-Resourced Environment: Challenges and Solutions’.
The program raised awareness of the issues that are faced by our orthopaedic colleagues who work in a low-resource environment and helped give Canadian orthopaedic surgeons a clear understanding of what they can do to be most effective in collaborating to find solutions.
Peterly Philippe, Haiti
Nick Were Omollo, Kenya
Robert Hind Tiondi, Uganda
If you missed it or want to share the link with a colleague, visit our YouTube for full session recording :
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The COA Global Surgery (COAGS) Committee is pleased to announce the winner of the 2026 Norman Bethune Orthopaedic Travel Scholarship, Dr. Graham King from St. Joseph Health Care in London, Ontario. Dr. King has been a leader in orthopaedics as an esteemed researcher, educator, clinician and expert in upper limb surgery. Recipient of the 2025 COA Lifetime Achievement Award, Dr. King has made a sustained impact nationally and internationally on the growth of the profession and has maintained the highest standard of patient care in his practice.
The Norman Bethune scholarship forges bonds and exchanges knowledge between China and Canada. Dr. King will travel to Wenzhou, China, as both a teacher and a learner, during a two-week period in 2026. COAGS is very grateful to the Second Affiliated Hospital of the Wenzhou Medical University (WMU), for this opportunity and is confident that Dr. King will be a tremendous ambassador for Canadian orthopaedics. Join us in congratulating him!
This spring, a proposed Checklist to Evaluate Global Surgery Partnerships was published (Binda et al, Ann Surg, 2024). It is meant to be a tool to improve the sustainability of the work that we do with lower-resourced partners, be it education, research, advocacy or other. The UBC group’s ultimate goal is to create a solid framework for clinicians and researchers from both high and low-resource settings to engage in meaningful partnerships to improve surgical care worldwide.
If interested in consulting the checklist, and giving your thoughts and opinions on it, click here for the QR code.
The preliminary results were presented as a poster at CSF in Winnipeg, you can see the poster here.
Thank you for your participation, and please do not hesitate to contact the investigators directly if any questions or comments: emilie.joos@vch.ca / catherinejbinda@gmail.com
About the Fellowship
The Fellowship offers specialized training to early-career Ukrainian orthopaedic surgeons (2-10 years of practice) in advanced techniques for managing complex limb and pelvic injuries with the Hamilton
Health Sciences (HHS) Orthopaedic Trauma Service (OTS). Fellows will learn how to organize a busy regional orthopaedic trauma service by actively participating in daily clinical activities and helping coordinate patient care with other administrative units and regional partners.
Focused educational opportunities in related fields can be organized to meet the learning needs of the Fellow (eg. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Microvascular Surgery, Spine Surgery, Trauma Resuscitation…). The Fellowship is made possible by financial support from the BCU Foundation.
Eligibility Criteria
Details
Duration – 3 months.
Stipend – Approx. CA $5000/month. Fellows responsible for living expenses.
Start dates – July 2, 2024, October 1, 2024, January 6, 2025, April 1, 2025.
Site – Hamilton General Hospital, Ontario, Canada.
Interviews with candidates will commence in mid-March 2024 until all four spots are filled.
Selection Process
Complete online application form: https://forms.gle/UBYi7CoQAQ8rJkFs6
Required documents: CV (Curriculum Vitae), Medical degree/certification documents, International passport photo page.
Organization: https://glia.org/
Registration form: https://t.ly/t30zo
