Stress and Burnout in Training; Requiem for the Surgical Dream.

Objective: Burnout among trainee doctors is common with as many as two-thirds reporting poor health. This study aimed to assess burnout in a cohort of UK core and higher general surgical trainees.

Design: The Maslach Burnout Inventory for Medical Personnel was distributed to 158 surgical trainees to evaluate emotional exhaustion (EE), depersonalization (DP), and personal accomplishment (PA).

Trauma and Orthopedic Surgery Curriculum Concordance: An Operative Learning Curve Trajectory Perspective.

Introduction: Certification of completion of training in Trauma and Orthopedic (T&O) surgery in the UK requires the demonstration of operative competence in 12 index procedures, achieved through attaining a level 4 consultant-validated procedure-based assessment (PBA). The aim of this study was to evaluate the trajectory of operative learning curves related to PBA performance with respect to operative caseload and training time.

Design: Logbook data from consecutive 24 higher T&O trainees were compared with PBA evaluations to determine the relationship between PBA level, operative experience, training time, and indicative numbers.

Laparoscopic Surgery's 100 Most Influential Manuscripts: A Bibliometric Analysis.

Purpose: Bibliometric analysis of the 100 most cited manuscripts in laparoscopic surgery.

Materials And Methods: Web of Science database was used to identify all English language full manuscripts with search terms "laparoscop*" and "surg*." The 100 most cited publications were analyzed by; topic, journal, author, year, and institution.