Departments of Surgery in South Africa--legacies of the past, challenges for the future.

Extracted from text ... Among the most important constituencies of the South African Journal of Surgery are its readership and contributing authors. The needs and interests of our readers are being addressed in several ways. A new feature in this and the following issues of the Journal is a review highlighting one of the academic departments of general surgery in South Africa. Each of the eight heads of department has been invited to introduce and record the achievements and talents of his department in a remit that includes a synoptic background and biographical detail of previous opinion leaders and staff who have made ..