The study on surgical services for the United States (SOSSUS) and its impact on American surgery.

The effects of SOSSUS can be fairly judged to be highly significant. Although it is too early to determine its ultimate effect on the number of board-certified surgeons and the number of individuals in training, it is important for having drawn attention to the consideration of many aspects of the delivery of surgical care and surgical education and for having stimulated similar studies by other medical and surgical specialties. It is hoped that such subjects will continue to be studied.