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.

The Perfect Storm Is on the Horizon!

Purpose: Provide analysis of data identifying the impending mass turnover of Directors and Coordinators of General Surgery residency programs and the potential effect on successful continuing accreditation including the ACGME Next Accreditation System (NAS) and associated self study.

Methods: The Association of Residency Coordinators in Surgery, Executive Committee (ARCS EC) anonymously surveyed 254 general surgery Program Coordinators in September/October 2016. This represents 60`% of all the members within the Association of Residency Coordinators in Surgery.

A Monte Carlo study of isomers and structural evolution in benzene-cyclohexane clusters: (C6H6)(C6H12)n, n=3-7, 12.

Monte Carlo simulated annealing strategies, carried out on four different potential energy surfaces, are applied to benzene-cyclohexane clusters, BCn, n=3-7, 12, to identify low-energy isomers and to trace the evolution of structures as a function of cluster size. Initial structures are first heated to ensure randomization, and subsequent annealing yields optimized rigid, low-energy clusters. Five major structural isomers are identified for BC3: one assumes the form of a symmetric, modified sandwich; the remaining four lack general symmetry, assuming distorted tetrahedral arrangements.

Monte Carlo studies of isomers, structures, and properties in benzene-cyclohexane clusters: computation strategy and application to the dimer and trimer, (C6H6)(C6H12)n, n = 1-2.

Low-temperature isomeric energies, structures, and properties of benzene-cyclohexane clusters are investigated via Monte Carlo simulations. The Monte Carlo strategy is first documented and then applied to (C(6)H(6))(C(6)H(12)) and (C(6)H(6))(C(6)H(12))(2) using four different potential energy surfaces. Results identify a single parallel-displaced dimer isomer.