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01-06-2019 | Foreword

Message from the Editors in Chief

Authors: F. Basile, F. Calise

Published in: Updates in Surgery | Issue 2/2019

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Surgery is facing, nowadays, a dramatic lack of calling. Participation in public competitions is negligible and neither are higher salaries able to reverse the trend. In Italy, in the last national general residency context, only eighty candidates out of over 6000 participants indicated surgery as their first choice. …

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Title: Message from the Editors in Chief
Authors: F. Basile
F. Calise
Publication date: 01-06-2019
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Published in: Updates in Surgery / Issue 2/2019
Print ISSN: 2038-131X
Electronic ISSN: 2038-3312
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13304-019-00671-y

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