How can trauma surgeons maintain their operative skills?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 387-389

  Schuster, Kevin M ^b,e   Lopez, Peter P ^c,d   Greene, Tobi ^a,b   Wheeler, Kerry ^a,b   Soffer, Dror ^f   Habib, Fahim ^a,b   Cohn, Stephen M ^c,d   Schulman, Carl I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Surgery ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^d Section of Trauma   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Elective general surgery; Emergency general surgery; Surgical skills; Trauma surgery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMAN; LIVER SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RESIDENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKILL; SPLEEN SURGERY; SURGEON; TRAUMATOLOGY; WORK EXPERIENCE; WORKLOAD; APPENDECTOMY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; INJURY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; SURGERY; UNITED STATES;

APPENDECTOMY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FLORIDA; HUMANS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGERY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; TRAUMATOLOGY; WORKLOAD; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 67649220946     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31817db08f     Document Type: Article

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