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Wound care specialization: A proposal for a comprehensive fellowship program
Author(s) -
William J. Ennis,
Wesley Valdes,
Patricio Meneses
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
wound repair and regeneration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.847
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1524-475X
pISSN - 1067-1927
DOI - 10.1111/j.1067-1927.2004.012203.x
Subject(s) - wound care , accreditation , curriculum , medical education , schedule , work (physics) , documentation , medicine , psychology , computer science , engineering , pedagogy , surgery , mechanical engineering , programming language , operating system
This article represents a process paper describing the development, at our facility, of a wound care fellowship that was scheduled to begin in July of 2003. The proposed program is in no way a finished product or our statement of how the program must be. This article is presented as a call to wound care professionals for input, criticism, guidance, and—we hope—adoption and acceptance of wound care fellowships in some format in the future. After many years of work in this field, it has become apparent that without medical specialization wound care will never rise from its current status of part‐time avocation to full‐time occupation. After a brief background and description of the present status of wound care education, an initial curriculum, program objectives, and clinical rotation schedule are presented. We look forward to the day when this program will have been replaced with a fully accredited, readily accepted, board‐certifiable fellowship program with all the rights and responsibilities afforded the other medical specialties.