Surgical

Professor Sankar Sinha is currently Professor of Surgery at the University of Tasmania. Prior to retiring from full-time practice in 2006, he had an interesting and varied career as a surgeon working in a number of countries including India, Zambia, Papua new Guinea, UK and Australia. He has a keen interest in medical education and research and received the Medal of the Order of Australia for his outstanding contributions to medical education and wound care in 2005.

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I went straight from school to study a BSc at the University of Calcutta, India. Following this, inspired by my uncle who was a Doctor, I decided to study Medicine ...