title: [Future potential of the young surgeon].
abstract: An inquiry, held at the General Surgery Unit of the University Hospital in Leuven in the beginning of 1986, showed that none of the 64 assistant-surgeons, trained between 1976 and 1985, is unemployed at the moment. The majority of these young surgeons is satisfied with their present situation. For many however, it appears to be difficult to chose a direction in which they can be operative afterwards. A solution to this problem could be found in the organisation of the medical staff, comprising 2, 3 or 4 general surgeons who could take turns for the routine jobs and still enlarge each of them a certain ability in one or other subspecialization.
mesh_terms: D002321:Career Choice; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate; D004651:Employment; D013502:General Surgery / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D013043:Specialties, Surgical
vernacular_title: De toekomstmogelijkheden van de jonge chirurg.