Global Surgery Lab

The Global Surgery Lab was founded in 2019 as the research and knowledge translation arm of the Branch for Global Surgical Care at the University of British Columbia. Our flagship initiative is the Vital Surgery Training Program, an 18-month task-sharing program that equips non-specialist doctors working in conflict and post-conflict settings with essential surgical skills through a hybrid curriculum of online modules and hands-on training. By partnering with with organizations like Médecins Sans Frontières, VitalSurg aims to drastically enhance local surgical capacity, thereby rapidly expanding access to quality surgical care in the world's most vulnerable communities.