The American Board of Surgery (ABS) has implemented a program of competencies required of surgeons for board certification and recertification. These competencies include professionalism, interpersonal, and communication skills.
This book is the perfect resource for training all surgeons, residents and medical practitioners to meet the goals of the ABS certification. Sixty-five highly skilled and professional surgeons share their knowledge on such important and timely topics as: teaching professionalism and ethics in the surgical profession, motivating oneself in the current professional and ethical environment, professional integrity and much more.
Peter Angelos, MD, PhD
Nancy L. Ascher, MD, PhD
Kenneth Bark, MD
Richard H. Bell, Jr, MD
Russell S. Berman, MD
Gabriel J. Bietz, MD
Linda L. Blank
Henry Buchwald, MD, PhD
M. Kelley Bullard, MD
Jo Buyske, MD
John J. Castronuovo, Jr, MD
Ravi S. Chari, MD, MBA
Raffy H. Chilingerian, BBA, MS, CCRA
Maurizio Chiriva-Internati, MD
Everardo Cobos, MD
Shelby S. Cooper, MD
Edward M. Copeland, III, MD
T. Mark Earl, MD, MSci
David W. Easter, MD
Julie Ann Freischlag, MD
Eldo E. Freeza, MD, MBA
Thomas H. Gallagher, MD
Dana Garay, RN, JD, CPHRM
Ross F. Goldberg, MD
Michael A. Goldfarb, MD
Patrick Greiffenstein, MD
Ari Halldorsson, MD
Alden H. Harken, MD
Michael W. Hart, DVM, MS, DACLAM
Steven Heneghan, MD
Mark S. Hochberg, MD
Karen D. Horvath, MD
Aaron R. Jensen, MD
Michael S. Kavic, MD
Stephen M. Kavic, MD
Suzanne M. Kavic, MD
Terrence H. Liu, MD
Gary N. Mann, MD
Jeffrey B. Matthews, MD
Michele K. McElroy, MD
Eric J. Moskowitz, BA
David B. Nash, MD, MBA
J. Patrick O'Leary, MD
Rocco Orlando, III, MD
H. Leon Pachter, MD
Timothy M. Pawlik, MD, MPH
Carlos A. Pellegrini, MD
Marcel I. Perret-Gentil, DVM, MS
Carolyn D. Prouty, DVM
Lynn Randall, RN, BSN, MBA-HCM
Robert V. Rege, MD
John J. Ricotta, MD
John C. Russell, MD
Thomas R. Russell, MD
Michael G. Sarr, MD
Robert P. Sticca, MD
U. Mini B. Swift, MD
Sara L. Thier, MPH
Felicia Tucker-Lively, MPH
Erik G. Van Eaton, MD
Andrew L. Warshaw, MD
Wm. Lynn Weaver, MD
Robert L. Wroblewski, MD
Randall Zuckerman, MD
Joseph B. Zwischenberger, MD