An education-based solution may be more sustainable for addressing the global burden of surgical conditions . Currently, 2.2 million more surgeons, anesthesiologists, and OB/GYNs are needed to address the global need for surgery . Without the proper surgical workforce, it may be difficult to scale up surgical care to meet the World Health Organization's and Lancet Commision on Global Surgery's goals for 2030 [3, 13]. In addition to providing clinical care in LMICs, efforts are becoming increasingly focused on teaching surgery and helping set up surgical residency programs through effective partnerships [14, 15]. There are many ways in which this is being done. Some have created online education platforms for surgical residents in LMICs, while others have brought surgical residents from LMICs to HICs for specialized training. International surgical teaching collaborations (ISTCs) focus on building surgical education infrastructure in LMICs to address the needs for clinical care, training, and research – the “tripartite needs” of global health – and often times also utilize some of the above-mentioned modalities to achieve those goals .