Establishing a rural surgery training program: a large community hospital, expert subspecialty faculty, specific goals and objectives in each subspecialty, and an academic environment lay a foundation

Moesinger, Robert C.; Hill, B. Jay

doi:10.1016/j.jsurg.2008.01.048

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“…For example, a study assessing the use of surgical resources in Manitoba defines rural as any county outside of 2 provincial metro politan areas. [20][21][22]51,54 Rural surgery scope of practice Thirtytwo articles assessed the scope of practice of rural surgeons (Table 6). Up to onethird of their scope of practice falls outside of traditional general surgery core competencies, excluding endoscopy.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…34,35 Results of those programs include more analo gous caseloads of residents and practising surgeons, increased likelihood of selecting rural surgery as a career, and increased selfreported preparedness for rural practice, including those procedures that fall outside of general sur gery. 30,34,35,37,53,54,60,74,88,89,[92][93][94] Canadian literature is lacking regarding general surgery training.…”

Section: E137mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Defining the Canadian rural general surgeon

Glass,

Davidson,

Friedrich

et al. 2024

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Background: A total of 18%-30% of Canadians live in a rural area and are served by 8% of the country's general surgeons. The demographic characteristics of Canada's population and its geography greatly affect the health outcomes and needs of the popu lation living in rural areas, and rural general surgeons hold a unique role in meeting the surgical needs of these communities. Rural general surgery is a distinct area of practice that is not well understood. We aimed to define the Canadian rural general surgeon to inform rural health human resource planning.Methods: A scoping review of the literature was undertaken of Ovid, MEDLINE, and Embase using the terms "rural," "general surgery," and "workforce." We limited our review to articles from North America and Australia. Results:The search yielded 425 titles, and 110 articles underwent fulltext review. A definition of rural general surgery was not identified in the Canadian literature. Rurality was defined by population cutoffs or combining community size and prox imity to larger centres. The literature highlighted the unique challenges and broad scope of rural general surgical practice.

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