The Scope of Practice of Hand Surgery Within Plastic Surgery The ACAPS National Survey to Assess Current Practice and Develop Educational Guidelines

摘要

Background: There is no consensus among plastic surgeons regarding what constitutes the scope of hand surgery practice. Due to this lack, there is a wide variability in what hand surgery procedures plastic surgery resident will see and participate in during the course of training. We assessed what faculty members of plastic surgery training programs felt were contained within the scope of practice of hand surgery.