How should academic surgeons respond to enthusiasts of global surgery?
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I THINK IT SAFE TO SAY that just about everyone connected to resident recruitment has been amazed by the number ofmedical students whohave had experience with or have expressed interest in work in low-income countries. Indeed, a growing number of our surgical residents envision themselves becoming involved in the nascent branch of global health, now increasingly referred to as global surgery. Given the growth of attention and the fact that many of these trainees are among our brightest and most motivated, global surgery can no longer be ignored as a boutique interest. Many practicing surgeons engaged in volunteer medical mission work have mentored and encouraged surgical trainees interested in global surgery, but the collective response by academic surgeons to global surgery has been mixed. Although some have been very supportive, the more typical response has been simply to ignore the trainees’ interest or to dismiss it as adventurism (which, granted, it sometimes is). This inattention would be understandable if the peak of the trainees’ ambitions were to have an experience with surgical care in an interesting foreign country. However, we are now seeing a growing cadre of trainees for whom this is not the extent of their ambition--trainees who want to build academic careers in global surgery research. The tendency of academic surgeons to ignore global surgery adds insult to injury. Global surgery already suffers plenty of disregard from the global health community. Paul Farmer once famously described global
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Surgery
دوره 153 6 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013