Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
Gerontology Department and Frailty in Ageing Research Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium; Department of Geriatrics, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Brussels, Belgium. Electronic address: ivan.bautmans@vub.be.
Department of Human Movement Sciences, @AgeAmsterdam, Amsterdam Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Department of Medicine and Aged Care, @AgeMelbourne, The University of Melbourne, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, VIC, Australia; Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Centre for Healthy Longevity, National University of Singapore, Singapore; National University Health System, Singapore.
Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada; Faculty of Sciences, Department of Exercise Sciences, Université du Québec à Montréal, QC, Canada.
Center for Interstitial and Rare Lung Diseases, Pneumology and Respiratory Care Medicine, Thoraxklinik, University of Heidelberg, Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Heidelberg, Germany.
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Konkuk University Medical Center, Konkuk University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
Little is known regarding how much exposure general surgery residents have to cardiac surgery, despite cardiothoracic (CT) surgery being an offered postresidency fellowship and career. Exposure to a s...
A survey was sent to all general surgery program directors via the Association of Program Directors in Surgery examining cardiac surgery exposure during training. The survey examined the presence of o...
In total, 44% (102/230) of program directors responded to the survey. Residents were involved in operative cardiac and cardiac ICU rotations in 61 programs (69.8%) and 39 programs (38.2%), respectivel...
There is a notable heterogeneity in general surgery resident exposure to cardiac surgery, cardiac ICU, and cardiac surgery mentorship. Increased exposure, mentorship and mitigating resident concern ov...
Acute care surgeons encounter patients experiencing surgical emergencies related to advanced malignancy, catastrophic vascular events, or associated with multisystem organ failure. The acute nature is...
While disparities in Black and Hispanic and Latino patients undergoing general surgeries are well described, most analyses leave out Asian, American Indian or Alaskan Native (AIAN), and native Hawaiia...
National Surgical Quality Improvement Program was queried to identify all procedures conducted by a general surgeon from 2017 to 2020 (n = 2,664,197). Multivariable regression models were used to inve...
Compared to non-Hispanic White patients, Black patients had higher odds of readmission and reoperation, and Hispanic and Latino patients had higher odds of major and minor complications. AIAN patients...
Black, Hispanic and Latino, and AIAN patients are at higher odds for poor postoperative results than non-Hispanic White patients. AIANs had some of the highest odds of mortality, major complications, ...
Global surgery efforts have significantly expanded in the last decade. While an increasing number of general surgery residents are incorporating global surgery experiences and research into their trai...
A 17-question survey of all general surgery residency program directors (PDs) was conducted by the Global Surgery Student Alliance through emails to the Association of Program Directors in Surgery lis...
Two hundred fifty eight general surgery PDs were emailed the survey and 45 (17%) responses were recorded. Twenty eight (62%) programs offered formal global surgery experiences for residents, including...
While most respondents felt that global surgery was important, less than two-thirds offered formal experiences. Despite the significant increase in public awareness and participation in global surgery...
Explore the lived experiences of General Surgery residents to identify how they perceive, define mistreatment, and which factors can contribute to or mitigate mistreatment within the Clinical Learning...
This is a phenomenological study conducted during 2019-2020 using Giorgi's psychological descriptive phenomenology methodology. Researcher bias, trustworthiness, and triangulation were addressed using...
General Surgery Residency program at Long School of Medicine, UT Health San Antonio, Texas....
All residents in the general surgery program were invited to participate (n= 66, 43% female and 63% non-Hispanic). Specific demographic and identifying data for each participant was not collected. App...
We were able to identify four themes that helped to delineate the lived experience of residents including program cultural factors, resident internal processing, and perceived effects of mistreatment ...
The lived experience of general surgery residents helped identify cultural factors and behaviors that contribute to and/or mitigate mistreatment providing information to plan interventions at the resi...
We hypothesized a decline in resident pancreatic operative experience. The study assesses trends in that experience since 1990....
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) national case log data of general surgery residency graduates from 1990 to 2021 were reviewed. Collected and analyzed were the mean and med...
Both the mean and median total number of resident pancreatic operations has declined since 2009 as have the mean number of several specific pancreatic case types, including resections. The annual numb...
Resident volume in pancreatic operations has significantly declined over the last decade....
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...
Robotically assisted surgery has become more common in general surgery, but there is limited guidance from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) regarding this type of train...
Robotic educational curricula were obtained from the 7 individuals who presented at the workshop, "Robotic Education in General Surgery" at the 2023 Association of Program Directors in Surgery annual ...
All 7 general surgery programs had training beginning intern year, required online robotic modules, had at least 1 dedicated simulation training console not used for clinical purposes, and ran dry and...
There are several common elements to robotic educational curricula in general surgery, however significant variation does exist between programs. Given the frequency of robotic use in general surgery ...
To explore and begin to operationalize workplace elements that influence general surgery (GS) resident wellbeing. Tailoring workplace wellbeing interventions is critical to their success. Occupational...
A national sample of GS residents from 16 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education training programs ranked the importance of workplace elements via an anonymous survey. Latent profile ana...
GS trainee respondents (n = 300, 34% response rate - average for studies with this sample population) expressed a hierarchy of workplace element importance which differed by gender and race. "Skills t...
Differences in prioritization of workplace elements reveal subtle but important differences that may guide the design of wellbeing interventions for different populations within surgery....
