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AUGUST 24, 2016

The Surgeon as Scientist: A Program for Surgery’s Future Innovators

By Brigid Duffy

New York—These days, surgeons are spending most of their time at the bedside and not enough time at the bench, according to one surgeon—a reality of modern surgery that might have lasting consequences for the future of patient care. But emerging professional development programs that aim to develop clinically trained surgeons into biomedical academicians and future leaders may help to improve the state of health care in the long term.

“We need to be more focused