Dr. Ebanks attended the University of Bern and graduated with her medical degree in 1997. She then returned to her hometown to complete a specialty program focused on general surgery and traumatology. In 1999, she and her husband moved to Western Samoa for a year, where she volunteered as a surgical registrar for a modest living and housing allowance.
“Working as a volunteer was a great and very rewarding experience for me, something I would recommend to anyone in the medical field. To be exposed to medicine in a developing nation, where people have a different attitude towards life, illness, and death, is truly a character-building experience,” says Dr. Ebanks of her volunteer work.
In addition to spending two years in Grenchen and Biel specializing in general surgery and traumatology, Dr. Ebanks worked 2 years in hand and plastic surgery in Lucerne as a surgical registrar. During this time, she also regularly attended to hand and burn emergencies that required surgical intervention. She fine-tuned her microsurgical skills working on these complex cases, including free flaps, replantation, and revascularization. After pursuing these specialties, Dr. Ebanks decided that her true passion was general surgery. For two more years, she worked as a junior consultant in general surgery and traumatology in Delemont, the French-speaking side of Switzerland. In 2005, she received her Swiss general surgery title of FMH, followed by her registration as a general surgeon in the British GMC in June 2006.
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