Nonuniversity-Based Surgeons Coming Up Anything but Short in Solutions to the Future Surgeon Shortage

NBE versus MCI—the slug fest

“…They also found that these surgeons were more satisfied with the operative experience that they were exposed to in the nonteaching hospitals than their counterparts in the teaching hospitals. Further, it was found that most of the trainees passing out from the non-teaching hospitals settled in to private practice, and the probable reason offered by Dr. Balinger and Kao in an accompanying editorial [2] was BIt may give them more opportunities to focus on bread and butter general surgeries instead of the more esoteric cases referred to academic medical centres.^Probably smaller number of trainees in these community hospitals also gives them better exposure to clinical work with less time spent on core research and in the animal or experimental labs.If one were to extrapolate these findings, I think the situation in India is quite analogous. Our private sector hospitals today are no less than the community hospitals in the western world, and they do give an exposure to a wide variety of cases rather than just referral cases to be found in some of the more celebrated and hallowed organizations like AIIMS and PGIs.…”