Publications by authors named "William Magee Iii"
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- Many people worldwide lack access to safe surgical care, and women can play a key role in solving the healthcare workforce shortage by being leaders in healthcare.
- Operation Smile launched the Women in Medicine program to offer leadership and mentorship opportunities specifically for female healthcare workers.
- A study of all-women surgical programs in four countries showed that a vast majority of participants saw improvements in their skills and felt motivated to pursue leadership and mentorship roles, highlighting the significance of women supporting each other in their careers.
Background: Orofacial clefts (OFCs) are common congenital disabilities that can occur as isolated non-syndromic events or as part of Mendelian syndromes. OFC risk factors vary due to differences in regional environmental exposures, genetic variants, and ethnicities. In recent years, significant progress has been made in understanding OFCs, due to advances in sequencing and genotyping technologies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Short-term, high-volume surgical training experiences can lead to successful skills transfer and be an effective method of training surgical providers in low-resource settings. However, immediate skills acquisition does not guarantee long-term performance of surgical procedures by trainees. This study aims to determine the long-term impact of a short-term plastic surgery training rotation (STR) on general surgeon contribution to plastic surgery capacity building in Rwanda.
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