Current status of Canadian vascular surgery training: A survey of program directors

Canadian Journal of Surgery

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 311-318

  Forbes, Thomas L ^a   Harris, Kenneth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ARTERY BYPASS; CANADA; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CLINICAL EDUCATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPETENCE; EDUCATION PROGRAM; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; EXPERIENCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; LEG ARTERY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NORMAL HUMAN; REVIEW; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; TRAINING; VASCULAR SURGERY;

CANADA; DATA COLLECTION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; FACULTY, MEDICAL; HUMANS; SURGERY; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 24744458601     PISSN: 0008428X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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