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Changing Face Of Trauma And Surgical Training In A Developing Country: A Literature Review, Qamar Riaz, Sabah Uddin Saqib, Rehan Nasir Khan, Nadeem Ahmed Siddiqui
Changing Face Of Trauma And Surgical Training In A Developing Country: A Literature Review, Qamar Riaz, Sabah Uddin Saqib, Rehan Nasir Khan, Nadeem Ahmed Siddiqui
Department of Surgery
Trauma continues to be the major cause of disability and death globally and surgeons are often involved in immediate care. However there has been an exponential decrease in the number of the trained trauma surgeons. The purpose of the current review article is to summarize the published literature pertaining to trauma education in postgraduate surgical training programmes internationally and in a developing country as Pakistan. Several electronic databases like MEDLINE, PubMed, Google scholar and PakMediNet were searched using the keywords 'trauma education' or 'trauma training' AND 'postgraduate medical education', 'surgery residency training', 'surgery residents' and 'surgeons'. The current training in …