Dr. Gary L Dunnington M.D.
Surgical Oncologist | Surgical Oncology
747 N Rutledge St Springfield IL, 62702About
Dr. Gary Dunnington is a surgical oncologist practicing in Springfield, IL. Dr. Dunnington specializes in diagnosing, staging and treating cancer-related symptoms. Surgical oncologists also decide if the patient is a candidate for surgery or other cancer treatments based on certain factors such as age, physical fitness and other possible coexisting medical conditions
Education and Training
In Univ Sch of Med, Indianapolis In 1980
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Peer and self assessment during problem-based tutorials.
- Factors contributing to success in surgical education research.
- A ten-year analysis of surgical education research.
- Addressing the new competencies for residents' surgical training.
- Residency program models, implications, and evaluation: results of a think tank consortium on resident work hours.
- The impact of a program for systematically recognizing and rewarding academic performance.
- A model for teaching sentinel lymph node mapping and excision and axillary lymph node dissection.
- Periareolar injection for localization of sentinel nodes in breast cancer patients.
- Do individual attendings' post-rotation performance ratings detect residents' clinical performance deficiencies?
- Prognostic value of resident clinical performance ratings.
- Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education core competencies initiative: the road to implementation in the surgical specialties.
- Assuring the reliability of resident performance appraisals: more items or more observations?
- The effects of group dynamics on resident progress committee deliberations.
- Forecasting residents' performance--partly cloudy.
- Feasibility, reliability and validity of an operative performance rating system for evaluating surgery residents.
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