Lyndsay Glass1, Malcolm Davidson1, Emily Friedrich1

  • 1From the Division of General Surgery, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, Ont. (Glass); Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. (Afford); Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont. (Davidson); Undergraduate Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. (Friedrich); Division of General Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton Alta. (MacVicar); Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. (Gentles); the Department of Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta. (Miles); Department of Surgery, Northern Ontario School of Medicine University, Sudbury, Ont. (Kirkpatrick, Champion); Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, N.L. (Smithson); the Department of Surgery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S. (Walsh); Canadian General Surgery Foundation, Canadian Association of General Surgeons, Kanata, Ont. (Walsh); Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. (Hiscock); Department of Surgery, Shuswap Lake General Hospital, Salmon Arm, BC (Hiscock); Department of Surgery, McGill University, Montréal, Que. (Wong); Department of Surgery, West Parry Sound Health Centre, Parry Sound, Ont. (Champion).

概括

加拿大农村的外科医生是服务于小社区的专家,对大都市的影响力有限. 他们的独特技能对于农村医疗保健的可持续性至关重要,需要在培训和卫生系统规划中得到认可.