COSECSA Global Surgery Researchers
Meet our researchers under the COSECSA Global Surgery Mentorship Program, undertaking research on various topics and surgical specialties across Africa. With adequate resources and mentorship, COSECSA can produce and facilitate use of evidence in the region.
Get Involved
Should you be interested to mentor a researcher or fund our program please email Dr Godfrey Sama Philipo at: rpo.coordinator@cosecsa.org
- Investigating the incidence of Head injuries in Eastern Province, Zambia and surgical Outcomes
- Determinants Of Post Operative Myelomeningocele Wound Dehiscence Among Patients Operated On At The University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia
FUNDING: This work is part of the COSECSA Global Surgery Mentorship Program. Program received funding from The Intuitive Foundation, RCSI/COSECSA Collaboration Program, and AO Alliance
TITLE: COSECSA Surgical Audits and Standards Collaboration (COSurgASC)
Background:
The College of Surgeons of East Central and Southern Africa (COSECSA) and other surgical training institution have made significant strides in contributing to surgical workforce, by providing quality surgical education in the region. COSECSA aims to develop a Surgical Audit and Standards Network and implement surgical audits to assess baseline surgical practice and outcomes in COSECSA training sites, and identify areas of Quality Improvement for patients undergoing surgery in the accredited hospitals in the ECSA region. Data will be gathered for the purpose of proposing dedicated COSECSA standards and help in conducting surgical audits against these set standards.
Potential benefits:
- Hospitals and surgeons will be provided with tools to collect data on surgeries they perform
- Become part of the Regional Surgical Care Audits and Standards Network, and that will look into existing surgical standards and contextualize them for use in the region
- The project will come up with Minimal Dataset that can inform countries in the formation of Surgical Registries
- Opportunity for Research capacity building among Fellows and Surgeons
- Provide data for informing Continuous Professional Development on the areas of potential improvement of patient outcomes.
- Participating surgeons will be listed as co-authors in any resulting manuscript
Team Members:
- Dr Godfrey Sama Philipo
COSECSA – Tanzania
- Dr. Vihar Kotecha
Bugando Medical Center – Tanzania
- Dr. Michael Mwachiro
Tenwek Hospital – ESRC Chair
- Stella Itungu
COSECSA – Tanzania
- Prof Juan Carlos Puyana
RCSI/COSECSA Collaboration Programme – Ireland
- Lucia Brocato
RCSI/COSECSA Collaboration Programme – Ireland
- Niraj Bachheta
COSECSA – Tanzania
- Dr Wongel Tena
Lead – Ethiopia
- Lucy Kaomba
Lead – Malawi
- Dr Temesgen Nane
Co-Lead – Ethiopia
- Dr Nathalie Umugwaneza,
Lead – Rwanda
Funding Source: Irish Aid, Department of Foreign Affairs under the RCSI/COSECSA Collaboration Programme (CP). To participate and be part of the COSECSA Audit and Standards Network, please write to us through the, Research and Patient Outcomes Coordinator at: rpo.coordinator@cosecsa.org