Endocrine surgery: Where are we today? A national survey of young endocrine surgeons

Surgery

Volumn 147, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 536-541

  Solorzano, Carmen C ^a   Sosa, Julie A ^b   Lechner, Suzanne C ^a   Lew, John I ^a   Roman, Sanziana A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL GLAND; ADULT; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDOCRINE SURGERY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NECK DISSECTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET; PARATHYROID GLAND; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRACTICE ACT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; STANDARDIZATION; SURGEON; THYROID GLAND; TRAINING;

ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; CAREER CHOICE; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DATA COLLECTION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; ENDOCRINE GLANDS; ENDOCRINE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC DISEASES; THYROID DISEASES; THYROID GLAND;

EID: 77949490922     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.10.041     Document Type: Article

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