ACS Releases New Framework of Workplace Standards for Surgeons

To help support sustainable surgical careers, the American College of Surgeons recently released a framework of workplace standards that can be customized by surgical discipline. This episode features Douglas E. Wood, MD, FACS, FRCSEd, Vice-Chair of the ACS Board of Regents, and Philip R. Wolinsky, MD, FACS, ACS Regent, discussing the standards, as well as new resources on surgeon unionization.

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• Douglas E. Wood, MD, FACS, FRCSEd, is the Henry N. Harkins Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Washington in Seattle
• Philip R. Wolinsky, MD, FACS, is the Division Chief of orthopaedic trauma and a professor of orthopaedics at Dartmouth University in Lebanon, New Hampshire

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