Showing papers in "Journal of Surgical Education in 2019"

TL;DR: By combining knowledge-based problems, key learning objectives, technical skills, and CanMEDS themes into the Escape Room, the authors have developed a learning platform that may be more enjoyable and provide an adjunct to traditional didactic lectures.

TL;DR: Significant differences were found in the experience of female surgeons' experiences with gender bias and microaggressions in the workplace during residency and fellowship training, with those in male-dominant fields often reporting more frequent, severe, and stressful microaggression experiences.

TL;DR: A checklist to provide a general framework when reporting or analyzing studies involving virtual reality surgical simulation and machine learning algorithms will aid in narrowing the knowledge divide between computer science, medicine, and education.

TL;DR: The development and initial pilot process of implementation of EPAs into the assessment of General Surgery trainees is described.

TL;DR: The self-identified racial/ethnic distribution of general surgery applicants was studied to better ascertain the characteristics of underrepresented minorities (URM) within the general surgery applicant pool.

TL;DR: Haptic feedback is added to virtual reality simulators to increase the fidelity and thereby improve training effect and force parameters and force feedback in box trainers have been shown to improve training results.

TL;DR: Gendered differences exist in letters of recommendation for surgical fellowship applicants and this research may provide insight into the inherent gender bias that is revealed in letters supporting candidates entering the field.

TL;DR: While it is impossible to determine how burnout and IP directly impact each other, this study shows that both faculty and trainees experiencing burnout are more likely to report symptoms of IP.

TL;DR: Social belonging has a significant positive correlation with well-being and negative correlation with thoughts of leaving surgical training, and Lack of social belonging appears to be a significant predictor of risk of attrition in surgical residency.

TL;DR: Evaluated videoconference interviewing as a screening tool in the pediatric surgery match process found it may be an effective screening tool that could potentially reduce on-site interviews and alleviate the burden on applicants and general surgery training programs.

TL;DR: Automated methods for technical skill assessment is a growing field in surgical education and quality studies evaluating these techniques across many environments and surgeries are found.

TL;DR: It is essential for surgeons to receive adequate training in nontechnical skills and the most valuable teaching modalities such as high and low fidelity simulation needs to be implemented into surgical training curricula.

TL;DR: US graduates of urology residency programs express a perceived lack of confidence in several procedures that are commonly encountered in a general urologic practice.

TL;DR: Self-efficacy appears to be significantly predictive of resident well-being, and interventions to improve residents' general self- efficacy should be explored as a possible mechanism to improve well- being.

TL;DR: Being delivered at the beginning of the training scheme, prior to intensive patient exposure, registrars are in an optimum position to develop their newly acquired knowledge and skills to enhance training and intends to improve patient safety and satisfaction.

TL;DR: This study examines APDS demographics and determines the status of inclusion of women, racial and ethnic minorities, and nonuniversity surgeons to create a pipeline of diverse leaders in the APDS and surgical training in general.

TL;DR: Letter of recommendation for general surgery residency applicants are written using similar descriptive terms and lengths for male and female applicants, suggesting that there is no specific gender disadvantage with regard to letters of recommendation when applying forgeneral surgery residency.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that the face of surgery is changing, and continuous monitoring of the surgical workforce is important to anticipate future needs and to serve a diverse patient population.

TL;DR: Although further research and cost-benefit analyses are required, greater adoption of video-based assessment into surgical training may help meet increased assessment demands in an era of competency-based medical education.

TL;DR: This 2-hour communication skills practice session for general surgery residents was feasible, and it improved resident self-assessment of preparedness in communication and augmented self-directed skill practice.

TL;DR: Surgical trainees experience significant stress in the operating room and their experience of stress is modulated by cognitive and behavioral factors, which can negatively impact the performance of surgeons and trainees and may inhibit learning.

TL;DR: Frequent users perceive value from the SIMPL application, particularly from dictated feedback and see a positive impact on feedback in their programs, but programs must work to enhance faculty willingness to respond and dictate feedback.

TL;DR: Exploratory modeling indicates that residents, fellows, and faculty surgeons rapidly adapt to the controls of the Senhance regardless of experience level and force feedback engagement.

TL;DR: Electroencephalographic (EEG)-based indices have great potential as objective and nonintrusive measures to assess mental overload in surgeons and might play a relevant role in monitoring surgeons and residents' cognitive state during their training.

TL;DR: Video libraries can be efficiently created utilizing intraoperative recorders for minimally invasive surgery and overall video libraries are cost effective tools for trainee education, research, and ultimately surgeon credentialing.

TL;DR: The cost of publishing in open-access journals bears little correlation to their impact; this poses a dilemma for researchers without significant funding, so authors and funders must consider cautiously when submitting to these journals.

TL;DR: Over the past 3 decades, the resident operative experience as nonprimary surgeon has decreased dramatically, with today's residents graduating with fewer FA and TA cases, and it is essential that surgical educators recognize and rectify these trends.

TL;DR: Multidisciplinary simulation training was associated with improved trauma team efficiency in the form of reduced assessment time and team-based simulation training has the potential to improve patient outcomes.

TL;DR: Large variations in course content, duration, didactics, operative models, resource requirements and cost suggest that standardization of content,duration, and development of metrics for open surgery skills would be beneficial, as would translation into improved trauma patient outcomes.

TL;DR: Surgical confidence is influenced by a range of internal and external factors and understanding these factors can help educators improve learning experiences for residents and accelerate their progress towards being confident, independent surgeons.