Characterizing the Relationships Amongst Psychological Safety, the Learning Environment, and Well-Being in Surgical Faculty and Trainees.

Objective: Learning environments affect the well-being of surgical faculty and trainees. Psychological safety (PS) has been linked with learning behaviors and aspects of well-being within medicine; however, given the unique challenges inherent to the surgical learning environment, there is a need to more closely examine these concepts for surgical faculty and trainees. The objective of this study is to examine the relationships between learning environment and PS, as well as PS and well-being with surgery.

Readiness of Graduating General Surgery Residents To Perform Common Pediatric Surgery Procedures.

Objective: Up to 40% of pediatric surgery procedures occur at adult hospitals. We aim to evaluate how competent graduating general surgery residents are to perform common pediatric surgery procedures.

Design: Pediatric and adult inguinal (IH) and umbilical (UH) hernia operative evaluations were collected.

Evaluating Performance and Autonomy Levels of Previous Preliminary Surgery Interns.

Introduction: Surgery residents who complete a nondesignated preliminary year have an additional year of training compared to those who begin as categorical residents. While this additional year is sometimes perceived negatively, these more experienced residents may outperform traditional categorical (TC) residents in their first year of training.

Methods: Operative assessment ratings were recorded for first year categorical general surgery residents in the United States between 2015 and 2023 using the Society for Improving Medical and Professional Learning assessment platform.

National Profile of the ACGME Milestones 1.0 and 2.0 within General Surgery: A Seven-Year National Study from 2014 to 2021.

Purpose: The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) introduced General Surgery Milestones 1.0 in 2014 and Milestones 2.0 in 2020 as steps toward competency-based training.

Preclinical Immersion Experiences Improve Medical Student Perceptions of Surgery.

Introduction: Medical students historically receive little to no preclinical exposure to surgery and surgical subspecialties. As a result, by the time they reach their clinical clerkship time, students often have already found interest in other specialties. The goal of this study is to utilize the knowledge to action (KTA) implementation framework to design and refine a clinical immersion experience during the second year of medical school.

The Big Sibling program: Impact of a medical student-resident mentorship program during the surgery clerkship.

Background: We created a Big Sibling mentorship program for medical students and studied the program effects.

Methods: Between July 2019 to December 2020, students completing their surgery clerkship were paired with a Big Sibling surgical research resident. Participation in and perceptions of the program were assessed by survey.