Comparing International and United States Undergraduate Medical Education and Surgical Outcomes Using a Refined Balance Matching Methodology

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 265, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 916-922

  Zaheer, Salman ^a,b   Pimentel, Samuel D ^c   Simmons, Kristina D ^b   Kuo, Lindsay E ^a,b   Datta, Jashodeep ^a   Williams, Noel ^a   Fraker, Douglas L ^a   Kelz, Rachel R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

international medical graduate; medical education; surgical education; surgical outcomes

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BILLING AND CLAIMS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL OUTCOME; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; FLORIDA; FOREIGN MEDICAL GRADUATE; GENDER; GENERAL SURGERY; HEART DISEASE; HIGH VOLUME HOSPITAL; HOARSENESS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG INSUFFICIENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; MORTALITY RATE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NEW YORK; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ASPIRATION; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEPTICEMIA; SURGEON; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TRAINING; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; URBAN AREA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FEMALE; FOREIGN MEDICAL GRADUATES; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; MALE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84978775188     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000001878     Document Type: Article

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