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Finish Line or Beginning? Welcome the New Board-certified Surgical Oncologists

Authors: Douglas S. Tyler, MD, Fabrizio Michelassi, MD

Published in: Annals of Surgical Oncology | Issue 5/2016

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The application by the American Board of Surgery (ABS) to the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) for a subspecialty certificate in Complex General Surgical Oncology (CGSO) was unanimously approved by the ABMS Board of Directors and ratified by the ABMS Assembly in March 2011. In February 2015, the ABS conferred this certificate to the first 56 candidates who successfully passed both the first Qualifying Exam (QE) and Certifying Exam (CE). This editorial reviews the events that occurred during those intervening 4 years and adds to the previous publications that have chronicled the road traveled by our specialty from the very first efforts at a certificate 30 years ago.1‐3 …

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Title: Finish Line or Beginning? Welcome the New Board-certified Surgical Oncologists
Authors: Douglas S. Tyler, MD
Fabrizio Michelassi, MD
Publication date: 01-05-2016
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Published in: Annals of Surgical Oncology / Issue 5/2016
Print ISSN: 1068-9265
Electronic ISSN: 1534-4681
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-016-5110-x

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