Global Health Training in Anesthesia

Senior residents can apply for the ASA Resident International Anesthesia Scholarship Program to spend a month at a CURE Hospital in Ethiopia, Uganda, Malawi or Kenya, or a GHO-affiliated site in Rwanda or Guyana. Residents will be exposed to the challenges in a low-resource, underserved area in a developing country and will educate local anesthesia providers.

The Boston-Africa Anesthesia Collaborative (BAAC) is a group of anesthesia providers, nurses, and hospital/training institutions in Liberia and the United States who are committed to assuring accessible, high-quality, and safe anesthesia care in Africa.

The overarching aim of BAAC is to build capacity for excellence in anesthesia education and practice that is locally responsive, improves universal access to care, and improves individual and population health outcomes. Focus is on developing home-based education and training for Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) in Liberia and continuing a bi-directional visiting scholar's program.

The program has achieved significant success in fostering educational opportunities for Liberians interested in pursuing CRNA certification through curriculum development, learning technology enhancements, monthly Zoom-based grand rounds, student grants, and transportation for trainees to gain required practice experience in rural areas of Liberia.

Through the Botswana Global Health Program senior residents and fellows can complete a four-week elective at Princess Marina Hospital in Gaborone, under the supervision of Dr. Catronia Stewart, Director of the Anesthesia and Critical Care rotation in Botswana.Learn more about our long-term partnership with SLH.

This new program is in the development stage. The mission is to develop ultrasound training programs and exchange programs that will offer opportunities for our residents to visit Bolivia and for trainees from Bolivia to visit BIDMC for rotations.

This new program is in development. The goal is to use a train-the-trainer formatted curriculum to address the shortage of point-of-care ultrasound use in select institutions in India.

In development, this program will support the creation of programs for treating cardiac arrest and recognizing clinical deterioration in the medical setting.

Senior residents have the opportunity to apply for a SEA-HVO Traveling Fellowship to spend three to four weeks teaching anesthesia in a developing country. The SEA/HVO Fellowship is co-sponsored by the Society for Education in Anesthesia (SEA) and Health Volunteers Overseas (HVO).

Traveling Fellows may choose to rotate at any preapproved HVO site if the dates they choose to teach are dates that are available at the site. Traveling Fellows must be HVO members and travel arrangements will be administered by HVO. This is considered a clinical rotation outside the primary program and pre-approval must be obtained from the ABA Credentials Committee. Because this is an outside rotation it should normally be completed prior to the last three months of residency. Two days on either end of the rotation may be taken as travel days; otherwise residents are expected to be teaching on site all days that have been agreed upon by their program and HVO site.