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Clinical trial involvement in surgical training provides essential research experience to advance the specialty but raises concerns about reducing trainees' time in the operating theatre.
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Discusses the trade-offs between research experience and operative time in surgical training.
The next generation of surgical consultants will need research experience to advance the specialty, writes Dion Morton, but Colin Bicknell worries about increasing the time trainees spend away from the operating theatre, where they learn their craft
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Morton et al. (2015) studied this question. Clinical trial involvement in surgical training provides essential research experience to advance the specialty but raises concerns about reducing trainees' time in the operating theatre.
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