The UBC Branch for Global Surgical Care, in collaboration with the Canadian Network for International Surgery (CNIS), is honoured to host the 2022 Bethune Round Table.
The annual meeting will be taking place on June 16-19, 2022 .
This meeting will be FULLY VIRTUAL AND ONLINE.
Theme: Decolonizing Global Surgery
The Bethune Round Table (BRT) is an annual interdisciplinary meeting
aimed at addressing the challenges of providing accessible, high-quality
surgical care to marginalized patients in low-resource settings. By
bringing health professionals across a variety of disciplines together,
we are able to share strategies and create solutions for improving
surgical care to these under-serviced regions.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS – NOW OPEN!
Dear Global Surgery community,
We are excited to launch our 2022 BRT meeting, with the theme “Decolonizing Global Surgery”.
Our abstract submission portal is now open, and will close on April 15th, 2022
Abstract rules
Topic: Surgical, Anesthesia, and/or Obstetrics care in low-resource settings (including rural/remote/Indigenous communities)
Disciplines: All surgical disciplines will be accepted (nursing, OR technicians, midwives etc.)
Format: Max 300 words. Has to have the following headings:
Evaluation criteria:
All abstracts will be evaluated by our reviewers following those FOUR criteria (note: not all criteria will apply to all study types)
All abstracts will be considered for posters or podium presentations. Posters will have to be displayed on one slide and podium presentations will be given 10 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions.
In addition to completing the fields please be sure to attach your abstract as a Word file with the application.
Abstracts may be previously published, however authors will not be able to present their abstract at a future conference, as all accepted abstracts will be published in the Canadian Journal of Surgery (CJS).
More than one abstract per person may be submitted.
There will be cash prizes for the 3 best posters and the 3 best podium presentations.
We look forward to your submissions!
Emilie Joos, and the BRT 2022 Planning Committee
The Wall