The Wake Forest University School of Medicine Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation supports two medical overseas trips per year, one to the Dominican Republic and the other to Moshi, Tanzania. Each trip is unique and offers interested residents a chance to explore orthopedic care in underserved areas.
While the Dominican Republic trip is a week-long mission focusing on trauma, upper extremity and foot and ankle cases where attempts are made to assist and help with as many surgeries as possible (average of 25-40 in one week), the Africa experience offers one resident a prolonged, one-month experience to become immersed within a system and teaching hospital.
For those interested in participating in global health, or, for those who are interested in trying it who have no experience, but are curious, these trips offer residents a unique and invaluable opportunity to serve the global community while growing personally within one’s own clinical practice.
If you are interested in supporting these efforts either as industry or endowment, please contact Kelly.Rosenfeld@Advocatehealth.org.