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A Festschrift honoring forty years of government services, twenty-five years as Founding Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland and the seventieth birthday of Norman M. Rich, MD, Facs, DMCC, was held on Friday 26 March, 2004 in conjunction with the 24th Annual USU Surgical Associates Day. This article describes that event and introduces the articles written in celebration of it.
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Cirugía General/historia , Medicina Militar/historia , Traumatología/historia , Historia del Siglo XX , Historia del Siglo XXI , Humanos , Relaciones InterprofesionalesRESUMEN
In the 23 years since Dr. John Sharefkin presented his personal experience with Surgical Research at the Uniformed Services University, the opportunities offered have expanded. In addition, there have been many contributions to the surgical literature, including some leading to improved care of combat casualties. This article outlines how these opportunities have impacted the education of our students, the academic advancement of our active duty surgeons, and will offer benefit to our surgical patients of the future. USUHS is a unique resource for military medical research because its breadth of staffing and equipment and its neighbors make all these kinds of help and expertise available. It offers an opportunity for cooperation between military and civilian researchers of the kind that marked the great research success of WWII and radar, mass blood-banking, code breaking computers and antibiotic production.