Background Physician retirement planning and timing have important implications for
patients, hospitals, and healthcare systems. Unplanned early or late physician retirement …

Medical error is costly, in terms of the health and wellbeing of the patient, their family, and
the financial burden placed on the medical system. Reducing medical error is paramount to …

Objective: To assess changes in general surgery workloads and practice patterns in the past
decade. Background: Nearly 80% of graduating general surgery residents pursue additional …

Objective: We sought to compare postoperative outcomes of female surgeons (FS) and male
surgeons (MS) within general surgery. Summary of Background Data: FS in the workforce …

BACKGROUND: Accurate assessment of cognitive functioning is an important step in
understanding how to better evaluate both clinical and cognitive competence in practicing …

Background Retirement policies for surgeons differ worldwide. A range of normal human
functional abilities decline as part of the ageing process. As life expectancy and their …

Surgeons must accept the same inexorable deterioration in physical and cognitive function
in all aging humans. Although the vast majority of practicing elderly surgeons are excellent …

Importance Aging is well documented to be associated with declines in cognitive function
and psychomotor performance, but only limited guidance is currently available from medical …

Background Unlike some other safety critical professions, there is no mandatory age of
retirement for doctors, including surgeons. Medical regulators in Australia are implementing …

The surgical workforce is aging. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges
Physician Specialty Data Report, in 2017, 44.1% of 103 032 active surgeons in the United …