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Erschienen in: Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery 7/2014

01.07.2014 | Original Article

Will There Be a Good General Surgeon When You Need One? (Part II) Solutions and Taking Back General Surgery

verfasst von: Richard Smith, Steven C. Stain, David W. McFadden, Samuel R. G. Finlayson, Daniel B. Jones, KMarie Reid-Lombardo, The Public Policy & Advocacy Committee of the SSAT

Erschienen in: Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery | Ausgabe 7/2014

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Abstract

Introduction

Multiple reports have cited the looming shortage of physicians over the next decades related to increasing demand, an aging of the population, and a stagnant level in the production of new physicians. General surgery shares in this problem, and the specialty is “stressed” by a declining workforce related to increasing specialization that leaves gaps in emergency, trauma, and rural surgical care.

Summary

The Society of Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT) Public Policy and Advocacy Committee sponsored panel discussions regarding the general surgery workforce shortage at the Digestive Disease Week 2012 and 2013 meetings. The 2012 panel focused on defining the problem. This is the summation of the series with the solutions to the general surgery workforce shortage as offered by the 2013 panel.
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Metadaten
Titel
Will There Be a Good General Surgeon When You Need One? (Part II) Solutions and Taking Back General Surgery
verfasst von
Richard Smith
Steven C. Stain
David W. McFadden
Samuel R. G. Finlayson
Daniel B. Jones
KMarie Reid-Lombardo
The Public Policy & Advocacy Committee of the SSAT
Publikationsdatum
01.07.2014
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery / Ausgabe 7/2014
Print ISSN: 1091-255X
Elektronische ISSN: 1873-4626
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11605-014-2522-4

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