Since we started training at HelpMeSee, more than five thousand people have been trained, and interestingly, more than 60% are women - great news, right?
I have personally experienced our training methodology. With the guidance of one of our instructors and by analyzing the performance data, I was able to understand why some of my own surgical results were not as consistent as desired, but more importantly, by observing how this training has changed the trajectory of more junior doctors, increasing their confidence and performance in the transition to live surgery.
In the next 3 years, we expect to train a similar number of people, primarily in LMICs, and, hopefully, advocate for Simulation-Based Training to be integrated or even made mandatory in more countries to ensure better care and patient safety. Currently, to the best of my knowledge, only the UK and Denmark have made it mandatory before you can even enter the operating theatre.
Van C. Lansingh, MD, PhD, EMBA, FICO (Hon), FACS, FARVO
Chief Research Officer
HelpMeSee
Voluntary Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences. University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah
Honorary Professor. Centro de Investigación en Salud Poblacional. Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública. (Center for Population Health Research, National Institute of Public Health). Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
Associate Visiting Professor, GEPROMED, Strasbourg, France.
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HIFA profile: Van Lansingh is the Chief Research Officer of HelpMeSee and a member of the Vision Loss Expert Group of the Global Burden of Disease, with special interest in Cataract Surgery and Simulation-Based Training. vancharles AT helpmesee.org