Feast or famine?: The variable impact of coexisting fellowships on general surgery resident operative volumes

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 254, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 476-485

  Hanks, John B ^a   Ashley, Stanley W ^b   Mahvi, David M ^c   Meredith, Wayne J ^d   Stain, Steven C ^e   Biester, Thomas W ^f   Borman, Karen R ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^f American Board of Surgery Inc   (United States)

^g ABINGTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLORECTAL SURGERY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE SURGERY; FELLOWSHIP BOUND RESIDENT; GENERAL SURGERY; GENERAL SURGERY RESIDENT; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; OPERATIVE VOLUME; POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM SURGERY; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; VASCULAR SURGERY; WORKLOAD; ABSCESS DRAINAGE; APPENDECTOMY; CEREBROVASCULAR SURGERY; COLON RESECTION; COLOSTOMY; CYSTECTOMY; ENDOVASCULAR ANEURYSM REPAIR; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; HEMORRHOIDECTOMY; ILEOSTOMY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; RESIDENT; VASCULAR ACCESS;

ACCREDITATION; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; VIRGINIA; WORKLOAD;

EID: 80052298677     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e31822aa4d5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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