Commemorating the 10th Anniversary of the ASPS/ACAPS Resident Education Curriculum: A Model for Collaboration, Adaptation, and Sustainability.

The Resident Education Curriculum (REC) is one of the most widely recognized learning resources for plastic surgeons in training. The efforts that went into developing this program came from numerous individuals all driven by the same purpose - to create a lasting, up to date repository of all things plastic surgery related. As the program enters its 10th year of existence a closer look at the origins and evaluation is warranted.

Simple Effective Ways to Care for Skin Wounds and Incisions.

Plastic surgeons are medicine's wound experts. Many of the world's poor cannot afford expensive wound management programs. All humans suffer open and closed wounds at some point in their life and must look after them. The purpose of this paper is to provide basic information to the public in very simple terms on how to safely and inexpensively manage wounds. This paper is directed to all nonmedical people, medical students, and other doctors who may not be content experts in this field.