Showing papers in "Journal of Surgical Education in 2011"

TL;DR: HPS-based trauma teamwork training appears to be an educational method that can impact patient care and improve the teamwork and clinical performance of multidisciplinary trauma teams that include surgical residents.

TL;DR: It is concluded that laparoscopic simulator training improves surgical skills in novice trainees and both the box trainers and the virtual reality simulators are equally effective means of teaching Laparoscopic skills to novice learners.

TL;DR: Even though all general surgery programs have a wide range of screening/selection criteria, USLME Step 1 is the single most important factors for preliminary screening, and the interview is the most important factor in determining the final selection.

TL;DR: The bacterial adherence of suture materials should be taken into account by all practitioners when closing wounds or debriding infected wounds and the antibiotic impregnated absorbable braided suture was at risk for reverting to the properties of its untreated counterpart over time.

TL;DR: Although there is agreement on the need to improve intraoperative education, there is significant disparity in perceptions of preoperative preparation as well as intraoperative and postoperative feedback between residents and surgical faculty.

TL;DR: Trainees are spending less time in surgery at the SHO level, and this is reflected in reported operative ability, and the introduction of communication and teaching skills into the curriculum has had a perceived benefit.

TL;DR: The application of the expert performance model in surgery and the role of simulation in surgical skills acquisition are reviewed, highlighting the principles of part-task training, proficiency-based training and overtraining.

TL;DR: The logistics of setting up and running a fresh frozen cadaver laboratory, the governance arrangements in place, the performance of the facility in the first 2 years, and the feedback from the participants are described.

TL;DR: Surgical residents have completed more dedicated research years and became increasingly fellowship-trained over time and the proportion of female graduates has increased with similar increases in research time and fellowship training in this subgroup.

TL;DR: This study suggests that video game experience might be beneficial to a future career in surgery and suggests that relevant surgical skills may be gained usefully outside the operating room in activities that are not related to surgery.

TL;DR: The data indicate STEP1 is an independent predictor of resident success in general surgery and should maintain an important role in general Surgery applicant screening.

TL;DR: An MM&M conference is useful in its potential to meet ACGME General Competencies, engender a culture of patient safety, and rapidly achieve quality improvement and systems health care delivery initiatives in a large academic medical center.

TL;DR: Concerns that student performance on standardized testing would suffer from the proposed change were not substantiated as performance on NBME subject examinations actually improved.

TL;DR: This finding suggests that a more intensive practice schedule may be associated with a better performance, and it is proposed that training on non-surgical tasks may be a cheap, convenient, and effective addition to current training curricula.

TL;DR: Qualitative analysis of the open-ended questions yielded themes which resonate with both learners and teachers: communication processes, time pressures, optimization of the work/teaching environment, teacher engagement, patience/tolerance, autonomy, feedback, learner preparedness, and patient advocacy.

TL;DR: The ability to identify unique behavioral, motivational and personal talents that applicants bring to the program that were not identifiable from the traditional application and interview process has allowed us to determine applicants who were a good match for the structure and culture of the authors' program.

TL;DR: The expenditures associated with the implementation and maintenance of the ACS/APDS-based surgical skills curriculum in a surgical residency program are significant and the Penn Surgical Simulation Center's experience might be useful to programs deciding on more cost-effective means of implementing it.

TL;DR: Under laboratory conditions, the ideal knot has 5 throws to maximize tensile strength and rate of untying, and this finding does not seem to vary by type of suture material.

TL;DR: In this paper, a computer-based haptic simulator was used to evaluate resident proficiency and efficiency in the placement of a center guide wire during fixation of an intertrochanteric proximal femur fracture.

TL;DR: A 53-year-old man with an Amyand hernia with indirect and direct components was repaired with aBio-A (Gore, Newark, Delaware) plug and a patch made of Bio-A tissue reinforcement material with no signs of infection or recurrence in the follow-up period.

TL;DR: The results suggest that practice with an instructional video is an effective method for acquiring skill in subcuticular suturing.

TL;DR: The CTA curriculum was effective in increasing the performance and self-efficacy scores for postgraduate surgical residents and medical students performing an open cricothyrotomy.

TL;DR: A significant number of occurrences in which alphanumeric pages lack sufficient information, do not indicate the urgency of the page, and still require immediate callback by residents are observed, which potentially interrupts patient care and educational activities.

TL;DR: A low-cost personal laparoscopic training device can be built by individual residents and with their use, residents can significantly improve performance in important surgical skills.

TL;DR: A 20-year-old woman who presented to her institution with firm, nontender masses palpable in both breasts was diagnosed with breast fibromatosis, and an excisional biopsy was necessary to establish the diagnosis.

TL;DR: Recognizing the need for CCH training during the third and fourth years of medical education, a set of recommendations to assist clerkship directors and curriculum committees in their efforts to ensure C CH training in the last 2 years ofmedical education is established.

TL;DR: This study looked at how well patients who consented to have a laparoscopic cholecystectomy understood the complications associated with this procedure and the role of language barriers and highlighted the problem of obtaining consent from foreign born patients.

TL;DR: The operative experience of general surgery residents completing training at the University of Mississippi Medical Center from 2002 to 2008 was retrospectively examined and it is concluded that the surgical residents' total operative experience has declined since the inception of the DHR.

TL;DR: Overall, in a formative setting, the SP methodology was a useful methodology to assess surgery residents' patient communication.

TL;DR: A statistically significant relationship exists between student performance on the shelf examination and their perception of the overall quality of instruction that they receive from surgical residents, however, this seems to account only for a small portion of the variability in student percentile scores.