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Session title : Building sustainable educational and research platforms focusing on cancer surgery in India and the global south.
Description of session : Ensuring the delivery of safe, timely, high-quality and affordable cancer surgical care in the global south requires an adequate number of well-trained surgeons. Building sustainable, contextually appropriate and resource-stratified educational (will lead to adequately trained surgeons) and research (to deliver high-quality care) platforms are essential to build this workforce and deliver high-quality cancer care. This session will include speakers with expertise to outline the current situation, highlight barriers and propose strategies to address them.
Date : November 11th, 2023
Time : 14:00- 16:00 (London time)
| Time | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 14:00 | Chandra Are | Introduction to session |
| 14:00-14:10 | PK. Das | Overview of the current educational systems to train cancer surgeons |
| 14:10-14:20 | SVS. Deo | How to improve the current educational platforms for cancer surgeons |
| 14:20-14:30 | TS. Rao | Strategies for maintaining competency of cancer surgeons in practice: challenges and opportunities |
| 14:30-14:40 | Senthil Rajappa | Education of non-surgical physicians involved in cancer care: challenges and opportunities |
| 14:40-14:50 | Chandramohan | Financing the educational platforms for cancer professionals |
| 14:50-15:00 | Q&A Discussion | |
| 15:00 | Chandra Are | Introduction to session |
| 15:00-15:10 | Stephen Sener | Importance of research in cancer surgery |
| 15:10-15:20 | SP Somashekar | Non-financial barriers to cancer surgical research and strategies to address them |
| 15:20-15:30 | Vijayakumar | Funding mechanisms to promote cancer surgical research: Overview, challenges and strategies to improve them |
| 15:30-15:40 | Eman Sbaity | Mentoring pathways to train the future cancer surgical research workforce |
| 15:40-15:50 | KS. Gopinath | Role of cancer surgical journals from the global south in promoting cancer surgical research |
| 15:50:16:00 | Q&A Discussion | |
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