ArticleCanadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie2015
Why Canada needs networks to provide rural surgical care, including family doctors with essential surgical skills.
Article in Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Surgical Task-Sharing to Non-specialist Physicians in Low-Resource Settings Globally: A Systematic Review of the Literature.World journal of surgery · 2020Pooled it
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- Are we producing general surgeons who are ready for community or rural practice?Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie · 2021Article
- Family medicine residents in central Saudi Arabia. How much do they know and how confident are they in performing minor surgical procedures?Saudi medical journal · 2019Article
- Winds of change in delivery of quality surgical care are not strong enough.Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie · 2016Article
- Cross-specialty training in the era of competency-based education.Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie · 2015Article
- Comparison of outcomes after appendectomy in First Nations and non-First Nations patients in Northern Alberta.Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgieReview
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Abstract
summaryTime is long overdue for action to improve rural surgical services in Canada. In this issue of CJS, a proposed curriculum for the provision of enhanced surgical skills (ESS) to rural family physicians offers an opportunity to fortify a seamless network of high-quality surgical care for rural Canada. It is supported and enhanced by the best available evidence and measured advice from specialists and generalists alike. Publication of this curriculum proposal provides for essential dialogue with general surgeons. We discuss why we must play an active role in the development, teaching and evaluation of ESS, or we will have minimal influence and limited grounds on which to criticize its outcome or celebrate the opportunity of success it promises.
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