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Expert en Médecine, Optimisation des Parcours de Soins et Révision Médicale
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4 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Surgery, Carolinas Medical Center, 1025 Morehead Medical Drive, Suite #300, 28203, Charlotte, NC, USA.
Publications dans "Chirurgie générale" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Surgery, Tufts Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA. haziz@tuftsmedicalcenter.org.
Publications dans "Chirurgie générale" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Division of General Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel.
Publications dans "Chirurgie générale" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
Publications dans "Chirurgie générale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Surgery, University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa.
Publications dans "Chirurgie générale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
General, Emergency and Trauma Surgery, Pisa University Hospital, Via Paradisia 1, 56100, Pisa, Italy. federico.coccolini@gmail.com.
Publications dans "Chirurgie générale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
General and Emergency Surgery, Macerata Hospital, Macerata, Italy.
Publications dans "Chirurgie générale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Ernest E. Moore Shock Trauma Center at Denver Health, Denver, CO, USA.
Publications dans "Chirurgie générale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
General Surgery, Pavia University Hospital, Pavia, Italy.
Publications dans "Chirurgie générale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Visceral and Metabolic Minimally Invasive Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Poissy/Saint Germain en Laye, Saint Germain en Laye, France.
Publications dans "Chirurgie générale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Emergency and Trauma Surgery, Bufalini Hospital, Cesena, Italy.
Publications dans "Chirurgie générale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
ACGME, Chicago, IL. Electronic address: jpotts@acgme.org.
Publications dans "Chirurgie générale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Surgery, Carolinas Medical Center, 1025 Morehead Medical Drive, Suite #300, 28203, Charlotte, NC, USA.
Publications dans "Chirurgie générale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Surgery, Carolinas Medical Center, 1025 Morehead Medical Drive, Suite #300, 28203, Charlotte, NC, USA.
Publications dans "Chirurgie générale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Surgery, Carolinas Medical Center, Atrium Health, Charlotte, NC, USA.
Publications dans "Chirurgie générale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Division of Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery, Atrium Health, Charlotte, NC, USA.
Publications dans "Chirurgie générale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Division of Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery, Atrium Health, Charlotte, NC, USA.
Publications dans "Chirurgie générale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Division of Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery, Atrium Health, Charlotte, NC, USA.
Publications dans "Chirurgie générale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
The American Board of Surgery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Publications dans "Chirurgie générale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Surgery, University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Publications dans "Chirurgie générale" :
Assessment tools for grading technical and nontechnical skills, such as operative technique and professionalism, are well established in general surgery. Less is known regarding the application of the...
Rural surgery is most commonly provided by general surgeons to the 29% of people (7 million) living in rural Australia. The provision of rural general surgery to enable equitable and safe surgical car...
With an increasing number of women entering surgical careers, pregnancy amongst surgical residents is anecdotally rising. There is no single resource to inform expectant surgical residents of potentia...
Surgery department staff were invited to contribute to the pregnancy curriculum at the authors' institution. Feedback was received from attending physicians and surgical residents (N = 12), as well as...
Five areas of process improvements were identified for the protection of pregnant residents: culture, ergonomics, exposure, maternal & fetal care, and fourth trimester support. Specific recommendation...
Widespread and decisive institutional support is paramount to cultural shifts surrounding in-training pregnancy. The guidelines proposed in this project are intended to be enforced by surgical residen...
Robot-assisted general surgery, an advanced technology in minimally invasive procedures, is increasingly employed in elective general surgery, showing benefits over laparoscopy in specific cases. Alth...
Surgical site infections (SSI) are characterized by infections occurring in the surgical incision site, organ or cavity in the postoperative period. Adherence to surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis (SA...
It is a single-center prospective study conducted in general surgery wards between January 2022 and May 2023, with 404 patients pre-TP and 406 patients post-TP....
Cefazolin emerged as the predominant agent for SAP, favored in 86.8% (703/810) of cases. Appropriate cefazolin dosage increased significantly from 41% (129 patients) in pre-TP to 92.6% (276 patients) ...
Routine training sessions for surgeons emerged as crucial strategies to optimize patient care and enhance SAP compliance rates, particularly given the burden of clinical responsibilities faced by surg...
Labor unions are a mechanism for employee advocacy, but their role in surgery resident wellness is poorly characterized....
To understand experiences with unionization among general surgery residents and residency program faculty and staff....
This exploratory qualitative study included data from the Surgical Education Culture Optimization Through Targeted Interventions Based on National Comparative Data (SECOND) trial. In the exploratory p...
The main outcome was resident and faculty experience with resident labor unions. In the qualitative analysis, lexical searches of interview transcripts identified content regarding resident labor unio...
A total of 22 interview transcripts were identified with relevant content. Of these, 19 were individual interviews conducted with residents (n = 10), faculty (n = 4), administrative staff (n = 1), a p...
In this qualitative study, unionization was a mechanism for resident voice and agency; the desire to unionize likely highlighted the lack of other such mechanisms in the training environment. However,...
The goals of this study were (1) to assess if examiner ratings in the American Board of Surgery (ABS) General Surgery Cetifying Exam (CE) are biased based on the gender, race, and ethnicity of the can...
We included every candidate-examiner combination for first time takers of the general surgery oral exam. Total scores and pass/fail outcomes based on the 4 scores given by examiners to candidates were...
All first-time takers of the American Board of Surgery General Surgery Certifying Exam from 2016 to 2022 that had demographic data, and the examiners that participated in those exams....
The number of candidates/examiners for the 3 sets of models was 8665/514 (gender), 5906/465 (race), and 4678/295 (ethnicity). The demographic variables, format of the exam, or their interactions were ...
This study shows that there is not a relationship between candidate and examiner gender, race, or ethnicity, and exam outcomes based on statistical models looking at examiner-candidate ratings and pas...
Breast-conserving surgery (BCS) followed by radiotherapy is preferred for early-stage breast cancer because its survival rate is equivalent to that of mastectomy. Achieving negative surgical margins i...
Workplace-based assessment (WBA) can facilitate evaluation of operative performance; however, implementation of WBA is sometimes unsuccessful. The American Board of Surgery Entrustable Professional Ac...
The System for Improving and Measuring Procedural Learning (SIMPL) was implemented at our residency in 2018, but usage rates were low. We interviewed residents and faculty to identify barriers to usag...
In September 2022, we re-implemented SIMPL at our program with measures addressing the identified barriers. We found that, in the six months after re-implementation, an average of 145.8 evaluations we...
After identifying barriers to implementation of a WBA, we re-implemented it with significantly higher usage by faculty and residents. Future opportunities exist to implement or re-implement assessment...
Over the past 2 decades, the use and importance of robotic surgery in minimally invasive surgery has increased. Across various surgical specialties, robotic technology has gained popularity through it...