Future Surgical Leaders: Resident Perception Of Longitudinal Leadership And Non-Technical Skills Curriculum.

Objective: A paucity of formal leadership training programs exists for residents, and outcomes of those are limited in reporting. Based on a robust needs assessment, our program created a longitudinal cohort curriculum, Future Surgical Leaders, for residents and fellows of all levels to provide training in nontechnical skills. Our objective was to evaluate surgical resident short-term outcomes and satisfaction with the Future Surgical Leaders (FSL) curriculum.

Operative management of non-elective incisional hernia reduces readmission in a national database.

Purpose: The aim of this project was to compare patient characteristics, overall efficacy, and readmission events following operative vs non-operative management modalities of non-elective patients presenting with symptomatic incisional hernias.

Methods: This study is a retrospective study of patients and patient demographics that presented as non-elective hospitalizations with symptomatic incisional hernia. Analysis of patients and characteristics utilized the National Readmission Database from 2010 to Q3 of 2015, delineating patient factors and outcomes following operative or non-operative management of hernias.

See one, do one, teach one: A randomized controlled study evaluating the benefit of autonomy in surgical education.

Introduction: "See one, do one, teach one" has represented the model for surgical education for over a century, however recent changes in education have reduced autonomy in training. The goal of this study was to assess the impact of autonomy on learning a procedural skill.

Methods: Senior medical students were randomized and trained to performance a vascular anastomosis utilizing progressive autonomy vs.

Vaccination of dogs in an African city interrupts rabies transmission and reduces human exposure.

Despite the existence of effective rabies vaccines for dogs, dog-transmitted human rabies persists and has reemerged in Africa. Two consecutive dog vaccination campaigns took place in Chad in 2012 and 2013 (coverage of 71% in both years) in the capital city of N'Djaména, as previously published. We developed a deterministic model of dog-human rabies transmission fitted to weekly incidence data of rabid dogs and exposed human cases in N'Djaména.