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By Virginia Adams O'Connell. 283 pp. Lanham, MD, University Press of America, 2007. $39.95. ISBN 978-0-7618-3662-9.

This book was written by a sociologist who focuses on a critical but insufficiently studied sociological aspect of residency training programs — why is it that so many residents who start surgical residency programs do not finish them? Getting Cut is based on the concept that given the considerable time and effort that program directors and faculty devote to recruiting residents to their programs and the strong desire of residents who matriculate into programs to finish them, a primary goal of all directors of residency programs should be to retain their residents and have them succeed. Yet many residents leave . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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