Global health conferences: are they truly 'global'? The Bethune Round Table paradigm for promoting global surgery.

摘要

As recognition of the contribution of injury and surgical disease to the global burden of disease grows, strategies to address these challenges have emerged, including on-site surgical support, larger-scale surgical education and capacity-building programs.In addition, there are a number of global health conferences whose main goals are to exchange, learn and expand on our experiences in global health, foster young leaders in global health and build new partnerships to further such endeavours.