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Is It Possible to Train Surgeons for Rural Africa? A Report of a Successful International Program

Authors: Andrew Kingsnorth, Shima Gyoh

Published in: World Journal of Surgery | Issue 6/2012

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We have followed with interest the comments by Dr. Merry about the report from Pollock and colleagues concerning the training of surgeons in rural Africa [1, 2]. Pollock et al. proposed replacing the term “task shifting” with “task sharing,” a concept that would involve fully trained surgeons (team leaders) working with trained generalists (the Niger model [3]), and trained surgical technicians (nonphysicians). …

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Title: Is It Possible to Train Surgeons for Rural Africa? A Report of a Successful International Program
Authors: Andrew Kingsnorth
Shima Gyoh
Publication date: 01-06-2012
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: World Journal of Surgery / Issue 6/2012
Print ISSN: 0364-2313
Electronic ISSN: 1432-2323
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00268-012-1442-2

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