title: Service: 2010 Western Trauma Association presidential address.
abstract: Service is central to the mission of a trauma surgeon and inextricably interwoven into our professional lives and activities. It is important to recognize the role that professional associations play in leveraging service as well as the need to continue to cultivate the ethic of service in medical education and in our training programs.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94110, USA. rmackersie@sfghsurg.ucsf.edu
authors.forename: Robert C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Mackersie
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D012941:Social Responsibility; D012955:Societies, Medical; D014194:Traumatology / Q000193:education / Q000941:ethics / Q000458:organization & administration; D014481:United States