The challenge

The David Nott Foundation, unlike most training organisations, travels directly to conflict-affected areas to train local medical teams — operating in some of the world’s most dangerous environments. So managing training content, faculty preparation, participant data, and post-training evaluation across those environments — securely and consistently — presented a significant operational challenge. 

The Foundation needed a platform capable of handling the complexity and sensitivity of its work: one that could support instructor-led training in the field, enable faculty to prepare remotely before deployment, and provide a standardized, secure way to share content with teams operating in conflict-affected regions.

The Solution

The Foundation adopted Docebo to manage the full lifecycle of its instructor-led training programs. The platform handles content management, participant administration, and evaluation forms, while Docebo’s reporting tools give the team the data they need to analyse training outcomes. Faculty use the platform to access and practice with course materials ahead of deployment, ensuring they arrive fully prepared.

“Now we can share our content in a safe and secure way.”

Rimah Safi
Research Impact and Learning Manager, David Nott Foundation

Beyond faculty preparation, Docebo is used to provide participants with pre- and post-training resources, manage learner numbers and access, and oversee evaluations and participation. 

The Foundation has also built out an alumni course — where doctors who have completed training can permanently access materials including the Hostile Environment Surgery book, written by expert faculty Pete Mathew and David Nott, alongside a curated reading list selected by faculty leads. The longer-term vision is to develop this into a fully connected community for war surgeons.

The organisation’s CEO views Docebo as an innovation tool — a means of sharing content in order to save more lives and making it easier to reach its global community of medical professionals.

“Our CEO sees this as an innovation tool, a tool that helps us share content in order to save more lives.”

Rimah Safi
Research Impact and Learning Manager, David Nott Foundation

The Results

Over the past year, the Foundation has run 10 courses — a mix of instructor-led training for doctors living and working in conflict zones, doctors traveling to work in these regions, and e-learning courses that prepare faculty to deliver training. During this time, they were able to reach approximately 300+ learners.

Docebo has given the team a new, more standardised, safe, and controlled way to manage and share content — changing how the entire organisation works. Platform engagement is growing as the team becomes more confident in using it. Comparing their Palestine training in July 2024 to their recent Ukraine training in April 2026 with Docebo, they saw a platform completion rate increase of 54%. As the training is instructor-led, all participants technically complete it — the figure reflects engagement with the platform itself and the Foundation’s growing confidence in using it.

“We see this as a platform that grows with us.”

Rimah Safi
Research Impact and Learning Manager, David Nott Foundation

Measuring success goes beyond platform metrics. The Foundation pulls data from Docebo as part of a wider picture of training impact — looking not just at numbers, but at whether training is leading to real change in practice in the field.

“We pull the platform level data from Docebo, which feeds into the bigger picture of ensuring that our training is leading to safe, skilled surgical care to all people.”

Rimah Safi
Research Impact and Learning Manager, David Nott Foundation