Ethics approval and consent to participate
All participants provided written informed consent and were assigned identification numbers to ensure confidentiality.
The Ministry of Health of the Sultanate of Oman approved the study.
Consent for publication
Not Applicable
Availability of data and materials
The data that support the findings of this study are available from ISUOG, but restrictions apply to the availability of these data, which were used under license for the current study and so are not publicly available. Data are however available from the authors upon reasonable request and with permission of ISUOG.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests
Funding
Funding for our study was provided by ISUOG and the Ministry of Health of the Sultanate of Oman.
Authors’ contributions
NV conceptualized the study, developed the proposal, conducted the statistical analyses, wrote the report, and participated in the overall supervision of the project and revision of the report.
AP conceptualized the study, wrote the report, and participated in the overall supervision of the project and revision of the report.
CB conceptualized the study, assisted in writing and editing the final report.
AA conceptualized the study and assisted in writing and editing the final report.
AT conceptualized the study and assisted in writing and editing the final report.
TCO coordinated the project, completed initial data entry and analysis, and assisted in writing and editing the final report.
EX conceptualized the study, coordinated the project, completed the initial data entry and analysis, and assisted in writing and editing the final report.
FM coordinated the project, completed initial data entry and analysis, conducted the statistical analyses, and assisted in writing and editing the final report.
SJ conceptualized the study, coordinated the project, wrote the report, and participated in the overall supervision of the project and revision of the report.
JH conceptualized the study, developed the proposal, wrote the report, and participated in the overall supervision of the project and revision of the report
All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank ISUOG, as this work would not have been possible without their support. The Omani Ministry of Health provided invaluable support and extensive guidance, without which the course could not have taken place. Dr Mouza Al Salmani, Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecologly in the Sultan Qabooz Royal Hospital in Musqat, provided the training facility and coordinated volunteer patients, without which this project would not have been possible. We would also like to thank GE for providing the machines for this course, as well as the ISUOG ambassadors in the region for facilitating and supporting the program.
We are grateful to all those with whom we have had the pleasure of working during this project: Gesù Antonio Báez for coordinating the project, our project adviser Hisham Mirghani, and the ISUOG trainers, Titia Cohen-Overbeek, Nimrah Abassi, Valeria Angioni, and Pauline Schut, who delivered the ISUOG Outreach lectures and provided practical hands-on training on the ground in Oman.