Publications by authors named "Anna M Paisley"
Supporting patients in making informed healthcare decisions is a cornerstone of ethical medical practice. Surgeons frequently draw for and show images to patients when consenting them for operations but the value of this practice in informed decision-making is unclear. An audit was conducted in a General Surgery Department.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: We previously described a feasible, reliable, valid, and acceptable clinical assessment form for basic surgical trainees (BSTs). We now recently assessed tissue-handling skills using real-time assessment (RTA) and video assessment (VA) and addressed feasibility, reliability, validity, and trainer-trainee agreement using the same assessment form.
Methods: Nine BSTs were videotaped as they performed open inguinal hernia repairs at 6 and 12 months of surgical training.
The aim of this study was to determine the accuracy of medical staff assessment of trainees' operative competence. Over 18 months all 36 basic surgical trainees in SE Scotland were evaluated at the end of each attachment by consultants and registrars on their ability to perform key operative procedures using a previously validated assessment form. Frequency of assessment was compared with: (1) trainee's recording of whether the specific assessor had actually directly supervised them performing the procedure and (2) number of supervised procedures performed by trainees as determined by logbook data.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The Edinburgh Basic Surgical Trainee Assessment Form (EBSTAF) is a feasible, reliable and construct valid tool for assessment of surgical trainees. Our aim was to determine its acceptability as a formative training tool.
Methods: Thirty-three trainees on the South-East Scotland Basic Surgical Training Program ranked the 70 skills examined by the form as essential, important, useful, or irrelevant.