Association of surgical resident competency ratings with patient outcomes

DE Kendrick, AE Thelen, X Chen, T Gupta… - Academic …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Purpose Accurate assessment of clinical performance is essential to ensure graduating
residents are competent for unsupervised practice. The Accreditation Council for Graduate …

Entrustable Professional Activities in Surgery: A Review

KB Montgomery, JD Mellinger, B Lindeman - JAMA surgery, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) compose a competency-based
education (CBE) assessment framework that has been increasingly adopted across medical …

Mortality and severe complications among newly graduated surgeons in the United States

RA Howard, AE Thelen, X Chen, R Gates… - Annals of …, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To evaluate severe complications and mortality over years of independent
practice among general surgeons. Background: Despite concerns that newly graduated …

Looking Together≠ Seeing the Same Thing: Understanding Surgeons' Visual Needs During Intra-operative Coordination and Instruction

V Popov, X Chen, J Wang, M Kemp, G Sandhu… - Proceedings of the CHI …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Shared gaze visualizations have been found to enhance collaboration and communication
outcomes in diverse HCI scenarios including computer supported collaborative work and …

Evaluating educational outcomes using patient outcomes of new surgeons performing partial colectomy compared to cholecystectomy

BC George, AE Thelen, RA Howard… - Academic …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Purpose Despite ongoing efforts to improve surgical education, surgical residents face gaps
in their training. However, it is unknown if differences in the training of surgeons are reflected …

American Board of Surgery entrustable professional activities (EPAs): assessing graduating residents' perception of preoperative entrustment

LDE Kearse, IS Schmiederer, TN Anderson… - Journal of Surgical …, 2021 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE To determine if graduating surgical residents are achieving entrustment of
surgical entrustable professional activities (EPAs). We hypothesize that postgraduate year 5 …

Implementation of entrustable professional activities in multiple surgical residencies: a quality improvement approach

DL Dent, R Patnaik, A Atkinson, JD Shomette… - The American Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background The COVID-19 pandemic decreased the operative case volume for surgical
residents. Our institution implemented Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) in all core …

[HTML][HTML] Factors necessary for entrustment decision-making in surgical operating rooms: A modified Delphi study

QA Ahmad, U Mahboob, RA Khan, K Waheed… - Journal of Taibah …, 2024 - Elsevier
Entrustment decision-making is characterized as a supervisor's determination of the extent
to which they can trust trainees to execute a specific task within the workplace environment …

Empowering the resident learner

VP Miles, RW Schroll, JS Beaty - Journal of Surgical Education, 2022 - Elsevier
Surgical resident autonomy is an essential element of the transition from supervised training
to independent practice. However, in an age of duty hour restrictions, legislative constraints …

The fundamentals of laparoscopic surgery in general surgery residency: fundamental for junior residents' self-efficacy

IS Schmiederer, LDE Kearse, RM Jensen… - Surgical …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Background Implementation of the Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS) by
the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) has served a …