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Netherlands Society for International Surgery

NSIS

The working group monitors the quality of the surgical part of AIG training by writing the curriculum and taking care of the visitations. We organise courses such as the colon suture course, tendon sutures and skin plastics, traumatology and fixator externa course and the inguinal hernia evening.

The Dutch Society for International Surgery (NSIS) started on 28 March 1990 as an independent working group and was ‘adopted’ by the Dutch Society for Global Health (NSGH). It was originally called the Working Group on Tropical Surgery (WTC). The association was also recognised by the Dutch Association for Surgery (NVvH) in 1991.

Our three main objectives are

  • raising awareness of the needs of surgical patients in low- and middle-income countries,
  • pooling initiatives to improve surgical healthcare in these resource-poor settings and
  • ensuring the quality of surgical training for Dutch specialists in global health and tropical medicine.

The global burden of disease requiring surgical care (such as trauma, cancer and complications during childbirth) currently accounts for one third of all diseases on the planet. And it is a growing problem. Despite this, there are major differences in access to safe surgical care worldwide. Surgery is an integral, inseparable part of well-functioning healthcare systems. All people should have access to safe, high-quality surgical and anaesthesiological care.

Members of the NSIS are primarily surgical specialists and surgeons in training with a special interest and experience in surgery in resource-limited settings.