European Journal of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery
Volume 39 , Pages S22-S24 , March 2010

Vascular Surgical Education in a Medium-Income Country

  • A.T.O. Abdool-Carrim

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Prof. A.T.O. Abdool-Carrim, MBChB, FRCS, Department Surgery University of Witwatersrand, P.O. Box 84089, Greenside 2034, South Africa. Tel.: +27 11 482 2120; fax: +27 11 482 2224.
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  • M.G. Veller

Received 12 November 2009 ,Accepted 25 November 2009.

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  2. Degiannis E, Oette GJ, Smith MD, Veller MG. Surgical education in South Africa. World J Surg. 2009;33:170–173
  3. Marschall JG, Karimuddin AA. Decline in popularity of general surgery as a career choice in North America. World J Surg. 2003;27:249–252
  4. Kahn D, Pillay S, Veller MG, Panieri E, Westcott MJR. General surgery in crisis – the critical shortage. S Afr J Surg. 2006;44(3):88–93

☆ Presented at the XXIII Annual Meeting 3–6 September, 2009, European Society for Vascular Surgery, Oslo, Norway.

PII: S1078-5884(09)00599-1

doi: 10.1016/j.ejvs.2009.11.030

European Journal of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery
Volume 39 , Pages S22-S24 , March 2010

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