GPAS Volunteer

Each year numerous medical trainees, practicing physicians, and a variety of other healthcare and non-healthcare professionals participate GPAS research and clinical projects.

If you are interested, we encourage you to review the useful resources below to help understand the body of knowledge and considerations around effective partnerships and volunteerism.

GPAS focuses on local capacity building projects rather than clinical volunteer work. At the present time GPAS does not provide any financial support for medical students or residents seeking to volunteer. We do try to keep track of some potential funding sources below.

Please read our projects page and contact us with any questions at partners@globalpas.org to find out more about our volunteer opportunities.

• Open Letter to Young Surgeons Interested in Global Health
• Global Surgery: Thoughts on an Emerging Subspecialty for Students and Residents
• A pediatric surgeons suggestions for successful short-term surgical volunteer work
• Operating in the Global Theater
• Short -term medical missions: study of quality care
• Academic Needs in Developing Countries
• Ethical dilemmas while opertaing and teaching in a developing country
• Redefining surical needs, training, and practice in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Ethics of Training in Developing Countries
• Seven sins of humanitrian medicine
• Ethics of Surgical Training in Developing Countries
• Ethics and Best Practice Guidelines for Training Experiences in Global Health
• International Surgical Electives
• Improving recruitment of surgical trainees and training of surgeons in Uganda
• Global Health Training and International Clinical Rotations During Residency
• Challenges meeting surgical needs in the developing world
• Haiti disaster tourism - a medical shame
• Surgical elective in a developing country: ethics and utility
• Scrambling for Africa? Universities and global health
• Template for surgical training in resource poor countries
• Who will be there when women deliver?
• A survey of Canadian general surgery residents' interest in international surgeryElective Global surgery rotations for residents: a call for cooperation and consortium
• Using CanMEDS to guide international health electives: an enriching experience in Uganda for a Canadian surgery resident
• The Medical Mission and Modern Cultural Competency Training
• Results of a National Survey of Surgical Resident Interest in international experience, electives, and volunteerism
• International experience, electives and volunteerism in surgical training: a survey of resident interest
• Role of students in global health delivery
• Health professionals for the 21st century: a students' view
• Global health in general surgery residency: a national survey
• The contribution of international health volunteers to the health workforce in sub-saharan Africa
• WHO Guidelines for health care equipment donations
• Development of an international elective in a general surgery residency

• Global Surgery Research Alliance
• Operation Giving Back

• Arthur Tracy Cabot Fellowship
• Fulbright
• Global Surgery Fellowship
• NIH Loan Repayment Program
• Plastic Surgery Education Foundation
• Fogarty International Center Research Training Grants
• Gorgas Memorial Research Award
• AAS Research Fellowship
• ACS Research Fellowship
• American Association of University Women
• Thrasher Research Foundation
• Global Health Scholars Program
• Garnham Fellowship RSTMH
• Rockefeller Resources
• Yerby Fellowship through HSPH
• American Philosophical Society
• GWIS
• Fogarty Internationa Center's directory of international funding
• USAID Global Health Fellowship
• Gates Foundation