Departments of surgery in South Africa - legacies of the past, challenges for the future
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2004
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South African Journal of Surgery
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University of Cape Town
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Among the most important constituencies of the South African Journal of Surgery are its readership and contributing authors. The needs and interests of our readers are being addressed in several ways. A new feature in this and the following issues of the Journal is a review highlighting one of the academic departments of general surgery in South Africa. Each of the eight heads of department has been invited to introduce and record the achievements and talents of his department in a remit that includes a synoptic background and biographical detail of previous opinion leaders and staff who have made seminal contributions to clinical surgery, teaching and research in South Africa. Within the brief are current research directions, registrar development, the thrust of undergraduate teaching and future prospects and challenges for surgery in that environment. Professor Brian Warren is the first to take up the gauntlet.
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Krige, J. E. J. (2004). Departments of Surgery in South Africa-legacies of the past, challenges for the future: editorial. South African Journal of Surgery, 42(3), p-76.