Advancing Equity in Assessment in the Surgical Learning Environment.

Importance: Assessment is a fundamental part of teaching and learning that provides the basis for making inferences about the development of learners. Inequity in assessment disproportionately impacts underrepresented in medicine learners and can limit their opportunities for achievement.

Observations: Unfortunately, inequity in assessment is prevalent in the surgical learning environment due to systemic and individual factors.

Faculty and Resident Perspectives on the Implementation of Entrustable Professional Activities in General Surgery Residency.

Objective: This study aimed to identify what best practices facilitate implementation of Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) into surgical training programs.

Design: This is a mixed methods study utilizing both survey data as well as semi-structured interviews of faculty and residents involved in the American Board of Surgery (ABS) EPA pilot study.

Setting: From 2018 to 2020, the ABS conducted a pilot that introduced five EPAs across 28 general surgery training programs.

More Than Aligning Perception: Impact of an Educational Intervention on Medical Student Mistreatment Reporting.

Background: Despite decades of reporting, rates of medical student mistreatment on the surgical clerkship remains a national issue. To understand whether misaligned perceptions about what constitutes mistreatment were leading to the high rates of reported mistreatment at our institution, we implemented an intervention designed to educate students about the unique challenges of the surgical environment and to build consensus around the definition of mistreatment.

Study Design: Medical students were recruited from the surgery clerkship to participate in a video vignette-based curriculum accompanied by a facilitated discussion.