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The body of literature addressing surgical care in LMICs is growing rapidly, but remains limited by comparison with other clinical and educational areas within surgery. There are currently multiple areas where research is needed, and therein is an important opportunity for academic surgeons to fill these gaps in knowledge. The Essential Surgery volume of the Disease Control Priorities Project 3rd Edition (DCP3), published in early 2015 and launched at the Academic Surgical Congress, emphasized the importance of surgical research in global public health. Some of the key areas within global surgical research noted within DCP3 are expanded upon below.
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Bickler, S.W., Ozgediz, D., Poenaru, D. (2016). Academic Global Surgery: Current Research Needs and Priorities. In: Swaroop, M., Krishnaswami, S. (eds) Academic Global Surgery. Success in Academic Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14298-2_8
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