The orthopaedic surgeon scientist: An endangered species?

✍ Scribed by S. R. Hurwitz; J. A. Buckwalter

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 207 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0736-0266
• DOI: 10.1002/jor.1100170202

✦ Synopsis

is recruiting academic orthopaedic surgeons with specialty training in hand surgery, sports medicine, joint replacemenl, and spine surgery at the levels of assistant and associate professor. Applicants should have interests in clinical care, teaching, and basic research.

Few gatherings of academic orthopaedic surgeons pass without at least some mention of the decline in the number of orthopaedic surgeon scientists, the increasingly rare individuals who practice orthopaedics skillfully, teach students and residents the scientific basis of clinical practice, and conduct investigations