A New Model of Global Reconstructive Surgery Training With Reduced Carbon Footprint of Outreach

JAMA Surg. 2024 Mar 20:e238028. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2023.8028. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Jordan Burgess¹, Natalie Meyers², Dora Rusin-Gomez², Paige M Fox¹, James Chang^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
² ReSurge International, Sunnyvale, California.

PMID: 38506854
PMCID: PMC10955348 (available on 2025-03-20)
DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2023.8028

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Plain language summary

This economic evaluation compares carbon dioxide emissions from air transportation for surgical mission trips vs team training trips.