Erschienen in:
01.04.2014 | Editorial
Introduction to travelling president’s fellowship
verfasst von:
A. S. Rai
Erschienen in:
European Spine Journal
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Sonderheft 1/2014
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Excerpt
Good-quality training is essential in becoming a specialist doctor. Most Spinal trainees are encouraged to do a specialist spinal fellowship thereby improving their operative skills, case selection, decision making and research. It is interesting to note that a particular spinal diagnosis can be treated differently from one region to another. This can be confusing to a young trainee, but it is important that they are exposed to many different surgical philosophies and treatment algorithms, provided these show validated improvements in patient outcome. Having access and contributing to a National Spine Registry will allow us to judge the results objectively. …