Education in burns

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Abstract

Education and team building in burn care can be broken down into three main components: surgical education, mentorship, and interprofessional education. This brief chapter will highlight these in order to provide a framework for current trends and the future of education in this field. These ideas are not novel and they have been successfully implemented in other fields. Our goal is to harness this knowledge for implementation in burn care, thus not only improving education, but also enabling recruitment and retention of health care providers in this field.

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Surgical Training Surgical Education Interprofessional Education Primary Health Care Team Peer Mentor 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Ross Tilley Burn Center, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic SurgeryUniversity of TorontoTorontoCanada
  2. 2.Sunnybrook Health Sciences CentreSunnybrook Research InstituteTorontoCanada

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