Product Description: This issue of Surgical Clinics of North America, guest edited by Drs. Ronald Martin and Paul Schenarts, is devoted to Development of a Surgeon: Medical School through Retirement. They have assembled expert authors to review the following topics: Residency Surgical Training at a University Academic Medical Center; Fellowship Training: Need and Contributions; Evolving Educational Techniques in Surgical Training; Transition to Practice: From Trainee to Staff Surgeon; The Value of the Surgeon Emeritus; Alternative Methods and Funding for Surgical Training; Medical School Training for the Surgeon; Residency Surgical Training at an Independent Academic Medical Center; Assessment of Competence: The ACGME/RRC Perspective; Assessment of Competence: The American Board of Surgery Perspective; The Impaired Surgeon; Continuing Medical Education: The American College of Surgeons Perspective; Workforce Needs and Demands in Surgery, and more...read more

Product Description: This issue will address the many perioperative components that define patient risk and optimize patient outcome. Topics that will be addressed include preoperative decision making, surgical infections, nutrition, the immunosuppressed patient, the obese patient, the elderly population, anesthesia and various aspects of pain management, both acute and chronic...read more

Product Description: This issue will address the state-of-the-art in esophageal surgery. A distinguished list of authors will present papers on a variety of topics including, paraesophageal hernias, endoscopic therapies for GERD, achalasia, diverticula, Boerhaave's syndrome, staging and multimodality therapy of esophageal cancer, and functional problems following esophageal surger...read more

Product Description: This issue will examine clinical outcomes for routinely performed advanced laparoscopy procedures. Procedures will be evaluated not only for their mere feasibility, but also in regards to separate health-related and patient-centered outcomes...read more

Product Description: This issue will address the natural history of obesity, the operative and non-operative options for treatment, the metabolic basis for obesity and its metabolic consequences, post-operative expectations, complications, and a candid discussion of the pro's and con's of the operative approach, including financial considerations...read more

Product Description: The aim of this issue can be summarized in the following question: Is surgical palliative care a new attitude or a new specialty? Articles will address palliative surgery, which is a subset of surgical palliative care, along with quality of life measurements and outcomes, barriers to palliative care, spiritual vs...read more