Trainee-initiated dictations of endocrine surgeries: Implications for education and reimbursement.

Introduction: Our university-based surgery department recently transitioned to attending-only authorship of operative reports. We performed a mixed-methods investigation to determine if trainee-initiated endocrine surgical reports were associated with under-coding of specific procedures.

Methods: Endocrine operations performed from July 2020 to June 2022 were identified from billing data.

Development of Neighborhood Trajectories employing Historic Redlining and the Area Deprivation Index.

The role of historic residential redlining on health disparities is intertwined with policy changes made before and after the 1930s that influence current neighborhood characteristics and shape ongoing structural racism in the United States. We developed Neighborhood Trajectories which combine historic redlining data and the current neighborhood socioeconomic characteristics as a novel approach to studying structural racism. Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) neighborhoods for the entire U.

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.

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on surgical trainee education and well-being spring 2020-winter 2020: A path forward.

Background: The time course and longitudinal impact of the COVID -19 pandemic on surgical education(SE) and learner well-being (LWB)is unknown.

Material And Methods: Check-in surveys were distributed to Surgery Program Directors and Department Chairs, including general surgery and surgical specialties, in the summer and winter of 2020 and compared to a survey from spring 2020. Statistical associations for items with self-reported ACGME Stage and the survey period were assessed using categorical analysis.

Multi-institutional Surgical Education Interventions: A Scoping Review.

Objective: The aim of the study was to identify and evaluate scholarship in multi-institutional interventional surgical education trials.

Summary Background Data: Most research on interventions in surgical education occurs at individual institutions. These studies typically involve a small number of learners in a unique environment, thereby limiting their generalizability.

Ten-year reassessment of the shortage of general surgeons: Increases in graduation numbers of general surgery residents are insufficient to meet the future demand for general surgeons.

Background: In 2008, we projected that a deficit in the general surgical workforce would grow to 19% by 2050. We reexamined population-based general surgical workforce projections to determine the impact of recent changes in population estimates and trends in certification and General Surgery Residency.

Methods: We reviewed the Census Bureau data and the potential pool of general surgeons defined by American Board of Surgery certificates, residents completing Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education-approved General Surgery Residency and combined American Board of Surgery and osteopathic certificates averaged from 2007-2016.