Building Specialty Surgical Capacity in Haiti and the Developing World.

Surgical education in the developing world faces greater challenges than in more resource rich countries. Many of these challenges were highlighted in the recently published Lancet Commission on Global Surgery and the lead commentary by Meara et al. 1 These challenges include greater financial constraints, poorer or nonexistent surgical infrastructure, less mature or poorly organized teaching programs, and lack of surgical subspecialty support. The poorer the country, the greater the challenges and yet in these situations the need for those surgical specialties is always greater. Little has been written about the need for surgical specialty training in these resource poor countries however.