Erschienen in:
01.06.2012
Global Surgery Rotations for Residents
verfasst von:
Timothy Hardcastle
Erschienen in:
World Journal of Surgery
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Ausgabe 6/2012
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Excerpt
I read with interest the results of the Association of Program Directors in Surgery (APDS) survey on international electives authored by Mitchell and coworkers in a recent issue of the journal [
1]. It is indeed laudable that they have attempted to address the need for surgical trainees in the United States to gain exposure to the “bigger picture” of surgery in less-resourced environments. As someone working in the developing world as an academic surgeon and who supervises trainees, I would like to make a few practical comments that may further assist the authors and the APDS with the design of such educational opportunities for the residents. …