What is Board Certification and the Fellowship in the American College Of Surgeons?
The term “General Surgery” is a discipline having a central core of knowledge embracing anatomy, physiology, metabolism, immunology, nutrition, pathology, wound healing, shock and resuscitation, intensive care and neoplasia, which are common to all surgical specialties. A General Surgeon certified by the American Board of Surgery is one who has acquired during training knowledge and experience related to the diagnosis, preoperative, operative, and postoperative management, including the management of complications.
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