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IGOT's Surgical Management And Reconstructive Training (SMART) Courses

San Francisco SMART Course

September 20-23, 2020

Conference Center: Orthopaedic Trauma Institute and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco

Nepal SMART Course

TBD

Conference Center: National Academy of Medical Sciences and Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu

 

Guadalajara, Mexico SMART Course

TBD

Conference Center: University of Guadalajara

 

 

 

Tanzania SMART Course

TBD

Conference Center: Muhimbili Orthopaedic Institute, Dar es Salaam

SMART Courses Impact

Every year between 20 and 50 million people are permanently disabled from road traffic injuries, and over 5 million die. That’s twice the number of deaths than HIV/AIDS, TB, and Malaria. Many of these are preventable, but local surgeons in countries with limited resources where these accidents are so common lack the training required to perform life-saving procedures.

 

IGOT’s surgeons go out into the field to educate and empower local surgeons through hands on courses like our SMART course, resulting in sustainable impact. Short-term medical mission trips are usually between 1-2 weeks, where the surgeons provide direct surgical care to people in low-resource countries. Short term medical mission trips provide 75-100 of these surgeries. The SMART course model provides over 1,000 surgeries because we are training the local surgeons to continue these surgeries during the course of the year. The cost of short term medical mission trips are around $11,000 per person per trip. The SMART course costs $450 per person per course.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Past SMART Courses
Course Date # of Participants and Countries   
 2nd Guadalajara, Mexico SMART  January 10-11, 2020  22 participants
 4th Nepal SMART  December 13-15, 2019  33 participants
 10th San Francisco SMART  September 15-18, 2019  51 participants, 24 LMICs
 7th Tanzania SMART  May 27-30, 2019  135 participants, 10 LMICs
 Inaugural Guadalajara, Mexico SMART   January 9-12, 2019  38 participants, 5 LMICs
 3rd Nepal SMART  November 16-18, 2018   33 participants
 9th San Francisco SMART  September 15-19, 2018   55 participants, 23 LMICs
 6th Tanzania SMART  June 19-23, 2018  125 participants, 13 LMICs
 2nd Nepal SMART  November 2017  32 participants
 8th San Francisco SMART  September 2017  53 participants, 15 LMICs
 5th Tanzania SMART  June 2017  111 participants, 17 LMICs
 Inaugural Nepal SMART  November 2016  30 participants
 7th San Francisco SMART  September 2016  65 participants, 22 LMICs
 4th Tanzania SMART  June 2016  174 participants, 12 LMICs
 6th San Francisco SMART  September 2015  50 participants, 14 LMICs
 3rd Tanzania SMART  June 2015  42 participants, 12 LMICs
 5th San Francisco SMART  September 2014  50 participants, 16 LMICs
 2nd Tanzania SMART  June 2014  113 participants, 10 LMICs
 4th San Francisco SMART  September 2013  50 participants, 11 LMICs
 Inaugural Tanzania SMART  June 2013  99 participants, 11 LMICs
 3rd San Francisco SMART  September 2012  40 participants, 15 LMICs
 2nd San Francisco SMART  September 2011         40 participants, 16 LMICs
 Inaugural San Francisco SMART           September 2010  48 participants, 17 LMICs