A Competency-based Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Curriculum Significantly Improves General Surgery Residents' Operative Performance and Decreases Skill Variability: Cohort Study.

Objective: To demonstrate the feasibility of implementing a CBE curriculum within a general surgery residency program and to evaluate its effectiveness in improving resident skill.

Summary Of Background Data: Operative skill variability affects residents and practicing surgeons and directly impacts patient outcomes. CBE can decrease this variability by ensuring uniform skill acquisition.

Identifying Managerial Roles of General Surgery Coordinators: Making the Case for Utilization of a Standardized Job Description Framework.

Objective: Residency coordinators are valuable members of the education leadership administration. In General Surgery, program directors must devote time to both their clinical practice and as the leader of the education program for surgical residents. With the introduction of competencies and the Next Accreditation System, the responsibilities of training programs have increased, with much of the necessary day to day management being driven by the residency coordinator.

Impact of integrated programs on general surgery operative volume.

Background: Integrated residencies are now commonplace, co-existing with categorical general surgery residencies. The purpose of this study was to define the impact of integrated programs on categorical general surgery operative volume.

Methods: Case logs from categorical general, integrated plastics, vascular, and thoracic surgery residents from a single institution from 2008 to 2016 were collected and analyzed.