This course is for healthcare professionals who care for patients with burn injuries. It is designed to strengthen your teamwork and help you understand each other’s roles in supporting burn patients’ needs. All healthcare workers who are members of a team treating burn patients, such as registered nurses, clinical officers and doctors, are welcome to join the course.

Burn care experts from around the world – including doctors, surgeons, nurses, plastic surgeons and physiotherapists from high-income settings and resource-limited settings – contributed to developing this course, so you’ll learn proven techniques that work in your context.

The course instructors are burn specialists, including nurses, clinical officers, surgeons and plastic surgeons. All instructors are selected by local authorities or organizations. The course is approved by the Dutch Burn Foundation, Interplast Holland, and Doctors of the World, Netherlands.

To make sure the Basics of Burn Care Course meets your needs, we tested the course material in various local settings around the world:

We collaborate with organizations, such as Interplast, Doctors of the World, Friendship, and CapaCare to move from the short-term surgical mission model to a more sustainable model focused on knowledge exchange. This saves money, human resources, and reduces the carbon footprint.

Local organizations such as Haydom Lutheran Hospotal, Kiruddu Hospital, and Masanga Hospital can be empowered to take ownership in providing high quality trainings for healthcare workers in their cachement areas.

National surgical societies worldwide can embed the course in new and existing training programs and provide an effective and inexpensive element for Continuous Medical Education (the ATLS course is an example of this).