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Acute Care Surgery fellowships were created to fill the need for expertise in emergency general surgery as well as trauma and critical care. Acute Care Surgery is a subspecialty of general surgery, with its own curriculum, site-verified program requirements, and a certificate of completion. Since its inception there has been both an increase in the number of accredited fellowship programs by the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma and a parallel increase in the number of interested applicants. This is a growing specialty that now has a major presence at many national surgical conferences and will play a major role in the changing health care delivery system.
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Jordan, J.R., Mohr, A.M., Moore, F.A. (2017). Developing an Acute Care Surgery Program. In: Moore, L., Todd, S. (eds) Common Problems in Acute Care Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42792-8_46
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