ArticleCanadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie2015
GPs with enhanced surgical skills: a questionable solution for remote surgical services.
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 6 papers.
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- Cross-specialty training in the era of competency-based education.Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie · 2015Article
- General surgery in Canada: current scope of practice and future needs.Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgieArticle
- Evaluating the scope of rural general surgery in British Columbia.Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgieArticle
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Abstract
summaryThe Canadian College of Family Physicians recently decided to recognize family physicians with enhanced surgical skills (ESS) and has proposed a 1-year curriculum of surgical training. The purpose of this initiative is to bring or enhance surgical services to remote and underserviced areas. We feel that this proposed curriculum is overly ambitious and unrealistic and that it is unlikely to produce surgeons, or a system, capable of delivering high-quality surgical services. The convergence of a new training curriculum for general surgeons, coupled with the current oversupply of surgeons, provide an alternate pathway to meet the needs of these communities. A long-term solution will also require alternate funding models, a sophisticated and coordinated national locum service and a national review of the population and infrastructure requirements necessary for both sustainable resident surgical services and surgical outreach services.
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