How Can You Help?
World Orthopaedic Concern is a registered charity (registered charity number 291881) and relies on voluntary contributions and membership subscriptions for all of its work. If you are interested in contributing, please contact our treasurer or make a donation on JustGiving.
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Donations & Available Equipment:
If you have any hospital or orthopaedic equipment to give away that is in good working order and may be useful in a developing country, please contact
our chairperson to discuss whether we might find a hospital keen to accept it. Transport to foreign climes is always an issue, so please do ask prior to sending items to us.
Overseas Volunteer Opportunities:
Consultant level Volunteer Opportunities Abroad:
For any fully trained orthopaedic surgeon, many short term teaching opportunities exist. Click here for more details >
Urgent Need for an Orthopaedic Surgeon in Nepal:
Tansen Mission Hospital in Nepal is urgently seeking an orthopaedic surgeon for the period 12th - 26th October to cover the sole resident surgeon's period
of leave.
Please visit: www.tansenhospital.org.np/jobs
Orthopaedic Surgeons in Training:
For orthopaedic trainees, holding a surgical fellowship of one of the Royal College of Surgeons of Great Britain, there exist opportunities for training and teaching that are approved for up to one year of Specialist Registrar training by the English SAC in:
Blantyre, MALAWI (pdf)
Further opportunities are also available, but for which SAC training recognition has not yet been formally requested. Such positions may be positively considered by the SAC as constituting approved training posts, but individual request for such approval would have to be submitted by any volunteer.
Alternatively:
- up to six weeks of SpR training can be taken as either paid or unpaid leave at your regional postgraduate dean's discretion for such an educational venture.
- Study leave or extended annual leave may be requested for any of these posts.