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are exposed to a breadth of learning experiences to help them provide excellent patient care, as well as maintain their general surgery knowledge base, develop comparative and critical literature reading skills, and effectively prepare for recertification exams.
No two surgeons have the exact same preferences. Some general surgeons prefer to read a print journal, while others are more interested in Web-based learning; still others prefer a mixed format. SRGS offers a range of subscription types to better meet the needs of its diverse surgical readership.
• SRGS print: Subscribers receive a hard copy of SRGS eight times per year. The print version includes both the overview and the selected article reprints. Print subscriptions are available with or without CME, and special rates are available for surgery residents.
Surgeons who don’t want to choose between the print and online versions of SRGS can take advantage of this subscription format, which is available with or without online access to article reprints.
Subscribers also receive a hard copy of each issue and have access to the materials online.
All online versions of SRGS provide access to additional materials, including “What You Should Know,” a compilation of 10 monthly review articles written by surgeons, for surgeons; and “The Knowledgeable Surgeon,” an engaging monthly editorial review written by Bernard Jaffe, MD, FACS, former editor-in-chief of Surgical Rounds and professor of surgery at Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA.
In addition, SRGS is launching a new feature— an audio companion to the overview, which will be available to all subscription types sometime this year.
Today, more than 45 million U.S. citizens are age 65 and older, accounting for 14 percent of the nation’s total population.
According to a 2014 report published by the U.S. Census Bureau, the size of this demographic is projected to nearly double to 83.7 million by 2050. Additionally, for better and for worse, the entire health care policy arena is changing, with increasing demands for measurable care.‡ As an example of how attuned SRGS is to the prevailing and critical issues that surgeons face today, SRGS will launch 2016 with an issue on geriatrics and palliative care, which will highlight surgical advancement in elderly care; and an issue on ethics, patient safety, and the business of medicine, which will examine some of the ways surgeons can remain viable in the changing health care frontier.