Surgical education and global health: call to action

[...]Andrew Hallet, a first year medical student, described his perception of humanitarian medicine in this way: "For practitioners who feel compelled to work among the poor and underserved, medicine transcends this already noble pursuit to become something even more profound. [...]what had rea...

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Published in:The American journal of surgery 2015, Vol.209 (1), p.1-7
Main Author: Hopkins, Mary Ann, M.D., M.Phil
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Careers
Developing countries
Education
General Surgery - education
Global health
Global Health - education
Humanitarian surgery
Humans
International Educational Exchange
LDCs
Medical Missions
Medicine
Mortality
Surgery
Surgical burden of disease
Surgical education
United States
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Summary:[...]Andrew Hallet, a first year medical student, described his perception of humanitarian medicine in this way: "For practitioners who feel compelled to work among the poor and underserved, medicine transcends this already noble pursuit to become something even more profound. [...]what had really motivated me to go into medicine was not so much the fact that there were few jobs in ancient medicine, but what I had done during my summers in college.
ISSN:0002-9610
1879-1883
1879-1883
DOI:10.1016/j.amjsurg.2014.10.007