Surgical Mentoring Building Tomorrow's Leaders
From the surgery clerkship, through residency, fellowship and clinical practice, surgeons learn from each other both formally and informally. Each generation follows in the footsteps of the last, while also blazing new trails in the hopes of improving pat
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John Rombeau • Amy Goldberg Catherine Loveland-Jones
Surgical Mentoring Building Tomorrow’s Leaders
John Rombeau Department of Surgery Temple University Hospital 3401 N. Broad St. Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19140 USA [email protected]
Catherine Loveland-Jones Department of Surgery Temple University Hospital 3401 N. Broad St. Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19140 USA
Amy Goldberg Department of Surgery Temple University Hospital 3401 N. Broad St. Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19140 USA
ISBN 978-1-4419-7190-6 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-7191-3 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-7191-3 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2010935290 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
This book is dedicated to our mentors who have immeasurably influenced our careers and continue to improve the care of our patients. Clyde F. Barker Clarence J. Berne Thomas V. Berne Robert F. Buckman Daniel T. Dempsey Victor W. Fazio Charles F. Frey Alden H. Harken Jonathan R. Jones Christine F. Loveland Jonathan E. Rhoads Wallace P. Ritchie Robert J. Smith Rupert B. Turnbull, Jr. Douglas W. Wilmore
Preface
The relationship between a senior surgeon (mentor) and his or her protégé (mentee) is like no other; thus, mentors are acknowledged more in surgery than perhaps any other medical discipline. One of the reasons surgical mentors are so highly respected is that we want to emulate them. This is exemplified by most successful surgeons having had at least an association with other successful surgeons. Although one can argue the associative versus causative nature of this relationship, it is irrefutable that something “happens” between these individuals which makes each a better surgeon. Why a book on surgical mentoring? First and foremost is to articulate the importance of a mentor to the education and growth of a young surgeon. A second goal is to provide state of the art, hands-on and didactic information on the current status and new directions in this field. Every attempt has been made to integrate day-to-day mentoring practices with evidence-based information. Surgical training in the twenty-first century is undergoing many changes which clearly alter the available time and opportunity to
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