Safety in Allowing Residents to Independently Perform Appendectomy: A Retrospective Review.

Background: In an era of competency-based education and concern about graduating resident readiness for practice, early resident autonomy and the ability to safely teach junior residents is becoming increasingly important. In this study, we aimed to understand the effect of "teaching resident" (2 residents operating under the supervision of an attending physician) appendectomy cases on outcomes.

Study Design: We performed a single-center retrospective review of 928 patients who underwent appendectomy within the University of Wisconsin hospital system, from October 2014 to December 2017.