Global Anaesthesia Series: Episode 4, Capacity Building in Surgical Care on Mercy Ships
In this final part of our Global Anaesthesia podcast miniseries, Jan and Fi have the privilege to speak to Dr Michelle White, a long-term volunteer for Mercy Ships (which we first covered in an earlier episode).
Michelle talks about her experience working in capacity building on the ship and the delivery of surgical services.
For more information about the Mercy Ship programme see below.
Contact details:
- RCoA Global Partnerships team: global@rcoa.ac.uk
- GASOC team: gasocanaesthesia@gmail.com
- X (formerly Twitter) @gasoc_2015
Links:
- RCoA Global Partnerships – RCoA website, Global partnerships Information
- Mercy Ships – Mercy Ships webpage
Dr Jan Man Wong is an ST6 trainee at Great Ormond Street Hospital. She qualified from Norwich Medical School in 2013 and trained in anaesthetics in London since then. Her interests are in paediatric and obstetric anaesthesia as well as improving postgraduate education.
Jan is one of the two UK Anaesthetic Representatives at GASOC (Global Anaesthesia Surgery Obstetric Collaboration), a co-opted member of the Global Partnership Committee.
Dr Fiona Linton qualified from Cardiff University in 2009. She is an anaesthetics registrar, currently ST5, in the Wessex Deanery.
She has undertaken 4 previous trips with Mercy Ships, which further inspired her interest in global surgery and anaesthesia. She is one of the UK GASOC (Global Anaesthesia, Surgery and Obstetric Collaboration) Anaesthetic representatives and was involved with organising their annual international conference last year.
Dr Michelle White is a Paediatric Anaesthesiologist originally from the UK. In January 2012 she resigned from her consultant post in England and joined the international charity Mercy Ships full-time.
Dr White is currently the Deputy Chief Medical Officer and Medical Capacity Building Director for Mercy Ships. She first became involved in PTC back in the 2000’s completing an instructor course in Oxford, but took until 2013 to become involved again. She has co-ordinated PTC courses in partnership with Mercy Ships in the Republic of Congo and in Madagascar.