TY  - BOOK
AU  - Higgins, James P
TI  - An American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH) task force report on hand surgery subspecialty certification and ASSH membership
SN  - 0363-5023
PY  - 2014///
KW  - *Advisory Committees
KW  - *Fellowships and Scholarships
KW  - *Hand/su [Surgery]
KW  - *Research Report
KW  - *Societies, Medical
KW  - *Specialties, Surgical
KW  - *Specialty Boards
KW  - Clinical Competence/st [Standards]
KW  - Curriculum/st [Standards]
KW  - Humans
KW  - Practice Patterns, Physicians'/st [Standards]
KW  - Specialties, Surgical/ed [Education]
KW  - United States
KW  - Curtis National Hand Center
KW  - Journal Article
N1  - Available in print through MWHC library: 1999 - 2002, Available online from MWHC library: 1995 - present
N2  - A task force for the American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH) recently investigated the practice patterns, board certification, subspecialty certification status, and ASSH membership of hand surgeons after completion of fellowship training. A total of 37% of the fellowship graduates from 2000 to 2006 had not attained subspecialty certification for a variety of reasons. A smaller group of fellowship graduates obtained the subspecialty certification but had not become Active Members of the ASSH. Efforts to strengthen the hand surgeon community and best serve our patients should focus on evolving patterns in post fellowship choices that reflect practice type choices and generational changes. Copyright © 2014 American Society for Surgery of the Hand. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhsa.2013.10.017
ER  -