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2
 new chapters: “Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Core Competencies,”
 
 examines the six areas designated as critical for general surgery
 resident training 
 
and “Ethics, Palliative Care, and Care at the End of Life,” offers an
 overview of biomedical ethics, 
 
and surveys specific issues in surgical and professional ethics, the
 general principles 
 
and considerations ofpalliative care, and care at the end of life

 
Greater focus on evidence-based medicine with highlighted references
 
 in each chapter and separate key reference list
 
Increased number of treatment and diagnostic algorithms
 
Key points in every chapter