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A history of the American Board of Surgery: vignettes from the certifying examination: The Edgar J. Poth Memorial Lecture.
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December 2015
Department of Surgery, Houston County Medical Center, P. O. Box 481, Crockett, TX 75835, USA. Electronic address:
The American Board of Surgery was established in 1937 to certify surgeons who through training, experience, and examination meet the highest standards of surgical care. This lecture was given as the Edgar Poth lecture at the April 2015 meeting of the Southwestern Surgical Congress. Dr Poth was a surgical educator from the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston who was President of the Southwestern in 1963.
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Am J Surg
December 2011
Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
Surgeons, perhaps more than any other specialists, recognize the concept of furthering the current state of the art by making conscious changes, whether by tweaking how a surgical procedure is done to push the envelope of minimally invasive techniques, finding novel means of advancing surgical education in the face of work-hour restrictions, or advancing quality initiatives in an era of health care reform. Indeed, innovation seems to be the imperative to moving the field forward, for surgeons recognize that without continual process improvement, we stagnate in the status quo. This article pays tribute to Dr Edgar J.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEdgar J. Poth memorial lecture: the future of general surgery is controlled by surgical megafauna.
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December 2010
East Bay Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, Oakland, CA 94602, USA.
Edgar J. Poth Memorial Lecture: lessons learned inside the beltway: one surgeon's encounters with health care policy.
Am J Surg
December 2009
University of Central Florida College of Medicine, PO Box 160116, Orlando, FL 32816-0116, USA.
Our health care system continues to undergo transformation in a context of extreme financial pressures. New models of care delivery and financing challenge us to rethink our practices as individual surgeons and as system participants. Understanding the fiscal realities of health care and how we are perceived by health care policy makers can help us to be meaningful participants in channeling reform to create better delivery systems for our patients.
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