Supporting the next generation of surgeons worldwide.

He describes a week combining specialist surgical sessions, a three-day early-career writing workshop, presentation of his own research and extensive networking. The experience strengthened his research skills and created new possibilities for mentorship, collaboration and training.

She highlights high-quality teaching in gastrointestinal and minimally invasive surgery and the opportunity to meet surgeons from different healthcare systems. The experience reinforced her goals in academic surgery, research and international collaboration.

His report emphasizes academic writing, global surgery, multidisciplinary learning and the value of direct access to senior surgeons and mentors. Informal events also helped turn new professional contacts into meaningful relationships.

After a long journey to Mexico City, she describes the scholarship as the opportunity that made her attendance possible. She especially valued the reception, meeting surgical leaders, connecting with scholars from several countries and learning across trauma, nutrition and upper-GI surgery.

He describes the congress as an opportunity for continuous learning, professional growth and deeper understanding of global health challenges. Exchanges with surgeons from different settings led to lasting contacts, shared experience and possible future training cooperation.

As a general surgeon working in Papua New Guinea, he valued the chance to attend an international surgical meeting, learn from colleagues across specialties and bring new perspectives back to his clinical environment.

He particularly valued the rare opportunity for extended one-to-one discussion with senior ISS leadership about his plans as an academic surgeon in sub-Saharan Africa and the guidance that followed from it.

She recalls an exceptionally educational congress with exposure to hepatobiliary, pancreatic and colorectal topics. The experience broadened her knowledge and strengthened her confidence in patient care.

Her experience deepened her sense of responsibility toward students and junior doctors and expanded her thinking about locally relevant research and translating research results into clinical practice.

He found the writers’ workshop especially valuable because it addressed participants at different levels and gave him a more focused approach to research, manuscript preparation and publication.

He describes WCS 2019 as an eye-opening step toward his goal of becoming an academic surgeon in global surgery. The career-development and writers' courses strengthened his approach to research, reviewing and publication, while meetings with experienced academic surgeons provided valuable mentorship and encouragement.

The scholarship broadened his professional horizon in surgical education and contributed to later collaborative work focused on improving the quality of surgical education in low-income settings.

She describes the experience as highly motivating, combining learning with valuable interaction with fellow scholars and faculty. Those exchanges influenced both her professional outlook and confidence in her career path.

He particularly appreciated the writers’ workshop for demystifying academic writing and peer review, alongside a congress programme he found informative and well structured.

Interaction with surgeons from many countries exposed her to very different working environments, cultures and approaches to surgical practice while creating new professional friendships.