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 * INTERPLAST**

Interplast is a non-profit organization that provides free reconstructive surgeries to children with disabilities and adults with no access to specialized care. In addition to providing these services, Interplast works to educate surgeons around the world through an international online forum. "**Interplast Grand Rounds (IGR)** is a state-of-the-art web-based program that connects isolated, developing world surgeons with a global network of medical professionals for advice on difficult cases and to collaborate in the delivery of high-quality care to patients living in poverty overseas. Physicians post digital photographs and case summaries of complicated cases requiring reconstructive surgery, and almost immediately experts from around the world log on and offer advice and insight into available surgical techniques and follow-up care. Surgeons from 17 developing world countries in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America regularly collaborate with surgeons in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom." ("Education." [|Interplast.org]. 2008. <[]>)

Though membership in Interplast Grand Rounds is confined to medical professionals, a preview of their online forum can be found here: ([]).

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