Trauma Electives in South Africa Provide Invaluable Experience to International Doctors - The Johannesburg Experience
Trauma elective for IDs at our institution provided substantial benefits in which there was significant improvement in the self-reported competency in resuscitation skills as well as operative skills. Further studies should explore the durability of such self-reported competency and the correlation with objective measure of skills.
Authors
- Naadiyah Laher (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6372-2006)
- Riaan Pretorius (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2724-6014)
- Damian Clarke (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8467-1455)
- Devorah Wineberg (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2981-0982)
- Frank Plani
- Victor Kong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2291-2572)
- Daniel Lee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7240-3604)
- Richard L. Crawford
Institutions
- University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)
- Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital (ZA)
- Auckland City Hospital (NZ)
- University of KwaZulu-Natal (ZA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Surgical Research
- Published
- 2025-12-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2025.11.025
- Primary Topic
- Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00