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To review the history, educational outcomes, and operational challenges of international anesthesia fellowship programs aimed at expanding subspecialty workforce capacity in low- and middle-income countries.

November 15, 2024Anesthesia & Analgesia

The World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists’ Fellowship Programs: Past, Present, and Future

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PWPauline B. WakeUniversity of Papua New Guinea PLPatricia M. LivingstonDeakin University EREkta RaiJawaharlal Nehru University

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The editorial highlights the positive impact and challenges of the WFSA fellowship programs in building anesthesia subspecialty capacity in low- and middle-income countries like Papua New Guinea.

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To review the history, educational outcomes, and operational challenges of international anesthesia fellowship programs aimed at expanding subspecialty workforce capacity in low- and middle-income countries.
Analyzed historical data from the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA) fellowship initiatives established since 1996, spanning over 400 fellows across 62 countries.
Synthesized findings from the first formal evaluation of fellowship outcomes alongside country-level case studies from Papua New Guinea and Mongolia.
Fellowship graduates demonstrated substantial improvements in clinical practice, perioperative service development, local teaching, and national specialty leadership.
Primary barriers to successful knowledge translation included workplace resource deficits, lack of specialized drugs and equipment, and limited institutional support upon returning home.
Long-term workforce sustainability is best supported by training fellows in comparable low- and middle-income settings and using graduates to build domestic subspecialty training infrastructure.

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Wake et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7ccff06d245ff91d66e5c7 https://doi.org/10.1213/ane.0000000000006984

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The editorial highlights the positive impact and challenges of the WFSA fellowship programs in building anesthesia subspecialty capacity in low- and middle-income countries like Papua New Guinea.

The World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists’ Fellowship Programs: Past, Present, and Future

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