General surgery graduates may be ill prepared to enter rural or community surgical practice

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 205, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 752-757

  Gillman, Lawrence M ^a   Vergis, Ashley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Community surgery; Generalism; Postgraduate; Rural; Surgical education

Indexed keywords

APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLEDOCHOTOMY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMUNITY CARE; DECISION MAKING; GASTRECTOMY BILLROTH II; GENERAL SURGERY; GRADUATE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMORRHOIDECTOMY; HERNIOPLASTY; HERNIORRHAPHY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MASTECTOMY; OBSTETRIC OPERATION; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM ANTERIOR RESECTION; RESIDENT; RURAL AREA; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SPHINCTEROTOMY; TOTAL STOMACH RESECTION; URBAN AREA;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CANADA; CAREER CHOICE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE LOCATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 84877821988     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: 18791883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2012.01.017     Document Type: Article

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