Herbert P Stride, Brian C George, Reed G Williams, Jordan D Bohnen, Megan J Eaton, Mary C Schuller, Lihui Zhao, Amy Yang, Shari L Meyerson, Rebecca Scully, Gary L Dunnington, Laura Torbeck, John T Mullen, Samuel P Mandell, Michael Choti, Eugene Foley, Chandrakanth Are, Edward Auyang, Jeffrey Chipman, Jennifer Choi, Andreas Meier, Douglas Smink, Kyla P Terhune, Paul Wise, Debra DaRosa, Nathaniel Soper, Jay B Zwischenberger, Keith Lillemoe, Jonathan P Fryer
BACKGROUND: Concerns exist regarding the competency of general surgery graduates with performing core general surgery procedures. Current competence assessment incorporates minimal procedural numbers requirements. METHODS: Based on the Zwisch scale we evaluated the level of autonomy achieved by categorical PGY1-5 general surgery residents at 14 U.S. general surgery resident training programs between September 1, 2015 and December 31, 2016. With 5 of the most commonly performed core general surgery procedures, we correlated the level of autonomy achieved by each resident with the number of procedures they had performed before the evaluation period, with the intent of identifying specific target numbers that would correlate with the achievement of meaningful autonomy for each procedure with most residents...
March 2018: Surgery