A national perspective on exposure to essential surgical procedures among medical trainees in Nigeria: a cross-sectional survey and recommendations
Paul Tunde KingPriest,
Barnabas Tobi Alayande,
Emmanuel Walong Clement
et al.
Abstract:Background
In sub-Saharan Africa, recent graduates from medical school provide more direct surgical and procedural care to patients than their counterparts from the Global North. Nigeria has no nationally representative data on the procedures performed by trainees before graduation from medical school and their confidence in performing these procedures upon graduation has also not been evaluated.
Methods
We performed an internet-based, cross-sectio… Show more
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