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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wound Care as a specialty of surgery continues to be a “young” field.\u00a0 As such, the field continues to experience much exciting growth and flux.\u00a0 We as a specialty still are answering for ourselves such existential questions as “what are the boundaries of our speciality,” “who should be allowed to practice as a wound specialist,” and “what is the proper training regimen?”\u00a0 While I certainly have my own opinions on this subject, my opinions are hardely the consensus.\u00a0 My background is in general surgery.\u00a0 Even during residency, I was drawn to wound care.\u00a0 It happened by chance that my program director also had a position in the hospital-associated wound center.\u00a0 It was there that I was introduced to ambulatory wound care, and found the patient care in this capacity professionally satisfying.\u00a0 However, there are many paths to the specialty.\u00a0 Some providers come from a family medicine or internal medicine background.\u00a0 Occasionally one will see doctors with an emergency medicine background.\u00a0 Many wound care providers are midlevel providers, such as nurse practitioners and physician assistants.\u00a0 The plethora of backgrounds leads to a richness and diversity of experience to help treat you, the patient!\u00a0 However, this diversity may also present the specialty with unique challenges.\u00a0 That is, a diversity of experience sometimes leads to variable and not reproducible outcomes, incomplete treatment algorithms, and failure to follow evidence-based medicine.\u00a0 Put simply, this might mean that the patient may not receive the best available treatment modality.\u00a0 We, the providers of Wound Care Experts, strive to do our part to counteract this.\u00a0 Recognizing that we all come from a different background, we have created a vigourous clinical apprenticehip program prior to independent practice in the group.\u00a0 We participate in scheduled clinical education and clinical practice review conferences.\u00a0 These serve to keep us up-to-date on the latest evidence-based treatment.\u00a0 The conferences also serve as a way for us to discuss difficult cases so that we might improve the patient’s outcome.\u00a0 We write treatment algorithms for various wound and disease processes.\u00a0 This provides a starting point for our providers, allowing for reproducibility and standardization.\u00a0 Of course, the provider may deviate away if that in their clinical jedgement is optimal for a particular patient.\u00a0 We also do our part to expand evidence-based practice by performing clinical research in accordance with good clinical practice (GCP).\u00a0 I particularly enjoy this aspect of my practice.\u00a0 Last, but certainly not least, we only use products that have a proven track record of efficacy.\u00a0 In the wound care ecosystem, there truly are “thousands of salves and potions” that purport to have wound healing properties.\u00a0 Every advanced product that enters our facility for use is scrutinized.\u00a0 For these reasons, and so many more, I am proud to work with the amazing team at WCE and am proud of the outcomes we have been able to facilitate for our patients.<\/p>\n
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