Mayo Clinic Joins the National Effort to Train Tomorrow's Rural Surgeons

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Describes challenges facing rural surgery, including workforce shortages, outlines the Mayo Clinic's development of a rural general surgery track, and identifies lessons learned in the first three years of the Mayo Clinic's program. Compares competencies required for rural surgeons and those in urban areas.

Randy C. Lehman, Brandon G. Douglass, Stephanie F. Heller, Michael C. Roskos

Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons, 104(10)

10/2019

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Health workforce education and training · Health workforce supply and demand · Rural-urban differences · Surgery