Surgical volunteerism as a collaborative teaching activity can benefit surgical residents in low-middle income countries.

Surgical care is desperately needed in low-middle income countries (LMIC). Due to small numbers of faculty in local training programs, residents have limited exposure to subspecialists. We describe a teaching activity between visiting surgeons from the U.

Transition to Practice: A Global Surgery Approach.

Objective: To determine the feasibility of a global surgery setting for a transition to practice experience.

Setting: A rural hospital in Malawi, Africa.

Participants: A recent graduate of a U.

Loma Linda Global Surgery Elective: First 1000 Cases.

Objective: To determine the nature and volume of surgical cases being performed by US general surgery residents during a global surgery elective.

Design: Retrospective review of case logs from 2012 to 2016.

Setting: Malamulo Mission Hospital is a rural hospital in southern Malawi.