Consequences of Legal Infractions on the General Surgery Residency Application Process.

Objective: Alcohol and drug-related legal infractions are common among college and medical students. The objective of this work is to quantify the influence of these legal infractions on program directors (PDs) when making decisions on applicants to general surgery residencies.

Design: A convenience sample of 72 PDs with publicly accessible email addresses were electronically sent a previously piloted survey tool.

Teaching Before, During, and After a Surgical Resuscitation.

Teaching during a surgical resuscitation can be difficult due to the infrequency of these events. Furthermore, when these events do occur, the trainee can experience cognitive overload and an overwhelming amount of stress, thereby impairing the learning process. The emergent nature of these scenarios can make it difficult for the surgical educator to adequately teach.

Open in Case of SOAP Emergency: Preparation for and Recovery after Failing to Match.

Failing to secure an internship is an extremely stressful event. In this manuscript we describe a process to prepare students for success, should they fail to match. This process involves an assessment of individual vulnerability, implementing mitigation strategies, developing a comprehensive plan in the event of failing to match, that is executed if the student needs to enter the Supplemental Offer Acceptance Program (SOAP) or the "scramble".

Visual Misrepresentations: The Lack of Skin Tone and Sex Equity in General Surgical Textbooks.

Objective: Lack of racial and ethnic diversity in educational material contributes to health disparities. This study sought to determine if images of skin color and sex in general surgery textbooks were reflective of the U.S.

A Primer on General Surgery Applicants Who Have Graduated From Indian Medical Schools.

Graduates of Indian medical schools account for the greatest proportion of non-US born international medical graduates applying to general surgery residency programs. Provide information to facilitate fair and holistic review of applicants from Indian medical schools. Comprehensive review of the Indian medical education system, including history, regulatory agencies, medical school admission, curriculum, cultural differences, immigration issues, and outcomes after residency.

The COVID-19 Patient in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit.

COVID-19 continues to rampage around the world. Noncritical care-trained physicians may be deployed into the intensive care unit to manage these complex patients. Although COVID-19 is primarily a respiratory disease, it is also associated with significant pathology in the brain, heart, vasculature, lungs, gastrointestinal tract, and kidneys.

The Biology and Psychology of Surgical Learning.

Surgical education requires proficiency with multiple types of learning to create capable surgeons. This article reviews a conceptual framework of learning that starts with the biological basis of learning and how neural networks encode memory. We then focus on how information can be absorbed, organized, and recalled, discussing concepts such as cognitive load, knowledge retrieval, and adult learning.

Promoting Access of Osteopathic Medical Students to Surgical Residency Training Programs.

The COVID-19 pandemic has uncovered disparities for allopathic and osteopathic surgical applicants for the upcoming 2021 residency application cycle. It has provided an opportunity for change to the current paradigm in surgical resident selection. This study seeks to quantify the disproportionality of opportunities between allopathic and osteopathic students and provides solutions to level the playing field for all applicants.

Surgical Trainees' Sense of Responsibility for Patient Outcomes: A Multi-institutional Appraisal.

Background: Surgeon educators express concern about trainees' sense of patient ownership. We aimed to compare resident and faculty perceptions on residents' sense of personal responsibility for patient outcomes and to correlate patient ownership with resident and residency characteristics.

Methods: An anonymous electronic questionnaire surveyed 373 residents and 390 faculty at seven academic surgery residencies across the United States.

Now Arriving: Surgical Trainees From Generation Z.

Objective: To provide an overview of the Generation Z, compare and contrast Generation Z with previous generations, and present information on how to best educate members of Generation Z.

Design: Literature review.

Setting: Not applicable.

Rapid Reversal of Novel Anticoagulant and Antiplatelet Medications in General Surgery Emergencies.

The reversal of the new class of nonvitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOACs) is challenging in the emergent perioperative setting. This summary focuses on the reversal of NOACs, determining the emergent nature (risk analysis), and other considerations in reversal.

The Cost of Compliance: The Financial Burden of Fulfilling Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and American Board of Surgery Requirements.

Objective: There has been a significant increase in the number of regulatory requirements for general surgery graduate medical education (GME) programs over the last 20 years from the governing bodies of the American Board of Surgery (ABS) and the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). We endeavored to calculate the cost to general surgery GME programs of regulatory requirements.

Design: We examined the requirements for General Surgery ABS Certification as well as the 2017 ACGME Program Requirements in General Surgery for all mandates that require funding by the surgery program to achieve.

Identifying Priorities for Faculty Development in General Surgery Using the Delphi Consensus Method.

Objective: Faculty teaching skills are critical for effective surgical education, however, which skills are most important to be taught in a faculty development program have not been well defined. The objective of this study was to identify priorities for faculty development as perceived by surgical educators.

Design: We used a modified Delphi methodology to assess faculty perceptions of the value of faculty development activities, best learning modalities, as well as barriers and priorities for faculty development.

The Fundamentals of Resident Dismissal.

Residents have the rights and responsibilities of both students and employees. Dismissal of a resident from a training program is traumatic and has lasting repercussions for the program director, the faculty, the dismissed resident, and the residency. A review of English language literature was performed using PUBMED and OVID databases, using the search terms, resident dismissal, resident termination, student dismissal, student and resident evaluation, legal aspects of education, and remediation.

"I got it on Ebay!": cost-effective approach to surgical skills laboratories.

Background: Surgical education is witnessing a surge in the use of simulation. However, implementation of simulation is often cost-prohibitive. Online shopping offers a low budget alternative.

The Effect of Patient Education on the Perceptions of Resident Participation in Surgical Care.

Objective: To decipher if patient attitudes toward resident participation in their surgical care can be improved with patient education regarding resident roles, education, and responsibilities.

Design: An anonymous questionnaire was created and distributed in outpatient surgery clinics that had residents involved with patient care. In total, 3 groups of patients were surveyed, a control group and 2 intervention groups.

Balancing Privacy and Professionalism: A Survey of General Surgery Program Directors on Social Media and Surgical Education.

Purpose: Unprofessional behavior is common among surgical residents and faculty surgeons on Facebook. Usage of social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter is growing at exponential rates, so it is imperative that surgery program directors (PDs) focus on professionalism within social media, and develop guidelines for their trainees and surgical colleagues. Our study focuses on the surgery PDs current approach to online professionalism within surgical education.