The World Journal of Surgery Is Pleased to Welcome Dr. Nirav Patel to Our Editorial Board
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Abstract
We are pleased to welcome Dr. Nirav Patel BA (Hons) (Canada), MA (Wits), MBBCh (Wits), Mmed (Wits), FC Paed Surg (SA), of Johannesburg, who has joined the WJS editorial board as a representative from the Global Initiative for Children's Surgery Global, an affiliated society of WJS. He brings expertise in pediatric and global surgery. Dr. Nirav Patel is a consultant pediatric surgeon at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital and a lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, South Africa. Dr. Patel is strongly interested in academic research, surgical education, and global surgery. Dr. Patel served as the President of the South African Society for Surgeons in Training (SASSiT) and sits on the board of Surgeons For Little Lives, an NPO dedicated to improving pediatric surgical care in the public service in South Africa. Before medicine, Dr. Patel completed undergraduate (BA (Hons)) and postgraduate degrees (MA) in the Arts from the University of Alberta, Canada, and the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Upon completing his medical degree at the University of the Witwatersrand and before specialization, Dr. Patel worked for Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Somaliland. Dr. Patel completed his training and was admitted as a Fellow of the College of Pediatric Surgeons of South Africa in 2019. Dr. Patel is passionate about providing high-quality pediatric surgical care in resource-constrained environments and has special interests in pediatric general surgery, burns, hepatobiliary surgery, and global surgery. College of Pediatric Surgeons of South Africa CPS (CMSA) South African Association of Pediatric Surgeons (SAAPS) Global Initiative for Children's Surgery (GICS) Welcome, Dr. Patel, and thank you in advance for your service!
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.009 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".