Surgical Innovations are central to surgical progress, and have led to exponential growth in
various fields of Surgery. Surgical Innovations in Lower and Middle Income Countries are …

Importance Affordable surgical innovations (ASIs) provide simple, safe and equitable
solutions in resource-limited settings. Effective dissemination is needed for widespread …

Background Global surgery has recently gained prominence as an academic discipline
within global health. Authorship inequity has been a consistent feature of global health …

Global health is all about including the excluded, and researchers of low-income and middle-
income countries (LMICs) are its major stakeholders. 1 However, these researchers find …

Current medical literature is teeming with clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for most
disease processes. These CPGs translate best available evidence into recommendations by …

Innovation is defined by the dictionaries as “a new idea, device, or method; or the act or
process of introducing new ideas, devices, or methods.” However, Surgical Innovation (SI) is …

For the last three and half decades, I have been passionately teaching the art and science of
surgery. So, when the idea of this special issue on “Surgical education and Academic …

The term 'Academic Surgeon'broadly refers to a member of a medical school department of
surgery, but this term does not do justice to the key role played by these surgeonscientists …

Surgical innovations (SIs) are central to the development of surgical science. However,
advanced SIs, usually with their cutting-edge technology, have high price tags which make …

Occam's razor is a historical heuristic principle that states that “if there are many
explanations/hypotheses for any phenomenon, the simplest one with the fewest …