The Chairman of a Department of Surgery?
| Autor: | Ronald M. Abel, David Fromm, Martin C. Robson, Katherine Bury, Sidney Levitsky, Clifford M. Herman, Kenneth G. Swan |
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| Rok vydání: | 1977 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Constitution Neonatal mortality business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Incidence (epidemiology) education Administrative Personnel Hospital Departments Middle Aged humanities Surgery Surveys and Questionnaires Family medicine medicine Humans business Surgery Department Hospital Schools Medical Aged media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Surgical Research. 23:377-383 |
| ISSN: | 0022-4804 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0022-4804(77)90055-5 |
| Popis: | Article II of the Constitution of the Association for Academic Surgery [l] states that, “The objective of this Association shall be to stimulate young surgeons to pursue careers in academic surgery. . . .” A possible corollary to this objective would be the encouragement of members of the Association to seek a career culminating in Chairman of a Department of Surgery. An often-heard figure with regard to the incidence of vacant Chairs within Departments of Surgery in the United States and Canada approaches 25%. Likewise, one often hears that the half-life of Chairmen of Departments of Surgery, like their counterparts, the Deans of Medical Schools, within these two countries, is measured in months rather than in years. While this enigma challenges investigation, the Committee On Issues felt the need to explore first the role of the Chairman of a Department of Surgery prior to initiating an investigation of his apparent neonatal mortality. In an attempt to address the former question, and perhaps in preparation for ultimately addressing the latter question, we elected to direct a questionnaire to Chairmen of Departments of Surgery, as well as their immediate superiors, the Deans of |
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