General Surgery Residency Inadequately Prepares Trainees for Fellowship
Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis · Virginia Mason Medical Center · +16 more institutions
Abstract
To assess readiness of general surgery graduate trainees entering accredited surgical subspecialty fellowships in North America.
A multidomain, global assessment survey designed by the Fellowship Council research committee was electronically sent to all subspecialty program directors. Respondents spanned minimally invasive surgery, bariatric, colorectal, hepatobiliary, and thoracic specialties. There were 46 quantitative questions distributed across 5 domains and 1 or more reflective qualitative questions/domains.
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 49.30
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 9
Authors
14- SGSamer G. MattarCorresponding
Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
- AAAdnan Alseidi
Virginia Mason Medical Center
- DBDaniel B. Jones
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University, Harvard University Press
- DRD. Rohan Jeyarajah
Methodist Dallas Medical Center
- LLLee L. Swanström
Oregon Clinic, Oregon Health & Science University
Topics & keywords
- Medicine
- Subspecialty
- Accreditation
- Respondent
- Thematic analysis
- Graduate medical education
- Medical education
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