Abstract

RAMIREZ SKINNER, Hernán; VARGAS DIAZ, Álex; GONI ESPILDORA, Ignacio  and  ROSA VALENCIA, Andrés. Postgraduate programs of maxillofacial surgery in United States, Canada and Chile. Rev Esp Cirug Oral y Maxilofac [online]. 2020, vol.42, n.1, pp.40-46.  Epub May 04, 2020. ISSN 2173-9161.  https://dx.doi.org/10.20986/recom.2020.1089/2019.

Maxillofacial Surgery is a surgical specialty developed from mancommunated work of Dentists and Physicians in the treatment of pathologies of increasing complexity. In the world there is currently a diversity in the requirements of academic degree in income, in the curricular organization and in the type of graduation in the training program of this specialty. Need for legal, ethical and curricular support in the complex medical work of this specialty and the worldwide trend in the development of double graduation to respond to this need cause this study to know about potsgraduate programs of the specialty in the United States, Canada and Chile.

Keywords : Oral and maxillofacial surgeons; maxillofacial surgery; medical education; dental education.

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