International
Challenges of maintaining overseas orthopaedic partnerships during the pandemic Daniel Yeomans, James Berwin, Rosemary Wall (on behalf of the WOC-Guyana Orthopaedic Partnership) and Chris Lavy
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Daniel Yeomans is an ST4 trainee in the Severn Deanery. He has a keen interest in Global Health and is the current World Orthopaedic Concern (WOC-UK) representative on the BOTA committee.
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s international travel came to a standstill in March 2020 overseas partnerships needed to find new ways in which to adapt and maintain relationships with colleagues in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMIC). COVID-19 brought the world online, and with it a unique opportunity to provide regular remote support to such projects. World Orthopaedic Concern UK (WOC-UK) was able to provide a platform for information sharing and resource pooling to support the continuing international education and training. Casting our mind to the June 2019 JTO issue featuring a WOC subspeciality on ‘How the global surgery agenda is changing’ – no one anticipated quite how much it would have to change over the following two years. The dedication
and enthusiasm of UK orthopaedic surgeons has enabled many partnerships to continue to thrive and provide excellent learning resources for overseas colleagues. In this article, we hear from three such examples. Two trainees, Rosemary Wall and James Berwin,
