Quality and Outcome Assessment for Surgery.

This forum summarizes the proceedings of the joint European Surgical Association (ESA)/American Surgical Association (ASA) symposium on Quality and Outcome Assessment for Surgery that took place in Bordeaux, France, as part of the celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the ESA. Three presentations focused on a) the main messages from the Outcome4Medicine Consensus Conference, which took place in Zurich, Switzerland, in June 2022, b) the patient perspective, and c) benchmarking were hold by ESA members and discussed by ASA members in a symposium attended by members of both associations.

The Role of Implicit Bias in Surgical Resident Evaluations.

Background: Implicit bias is a key factor preventing the advancement and retention of women and underrepresented minorities in academic surgery.

Purpose: We examined the role of implicit bias in the technical component of the residency performance evaluation. The Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS) score, an objective measure of technical performance, was compared to the subjective technical skills (TS) score given by attending surgeons.

Career Advancement for Surgeon-Educators:Findings from a Modified Delphi Process.

Objectives: Reward and recognition of surgical education as an academic activity remains a highly variable process between institutions. The goal of this study is to provide expert consensus definition of an academic surgical educator, with focus on criteria for academic promotion.

Study Design And Setting: Following IRB approval, a Web-based modified Delphi process was used to generate prioritized academic promotion criteria for surgical educators.