The mini-fellowship concept: A six-week focused training program for minimally invasive bariatric surgery

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2237-2239

  Cottam, Daniel ^a   Holover, Spencer ^a   Mattar, Samer G ^b   Sharma, Sunil K ^b   Medlin, Walt ^b   Ramanathan, Ramesh ^b   Schauer, Philip ^c  

^a Surgical Weight Control Center of Nevada   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bariatric; Courses; Education; Fellowship; Mini; Obesity; Post graduate; Training

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; CLINICAL EDUCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; GENERAL SURGERY; GRADUATE STUDENT; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; OUTPATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING;

BARIATRIC SURGERY; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 36248967581     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-007-9354-1     Document Type: Article

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