What factors impact surgical operative time when teaching a resident in the operating room

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Resident involvement would likely lead to prolonged operative time of a surgical case performed at academic medical centers. However, little is known about factors beneath this phenomenon. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether factors from case (procedure type, surgical case complexity, and surgical approach), teacher (attending surgeon experience and gender), and learner (resident postgraduate training year and gender) would influence operative time of surgical cases involved teaching a resident (SCT).

Methods

A single-institution retrospective analysis of 3 common general surgery procedures, including cholecystectomies, colectomies, and inguinal hernia, with involvement of general surgery residents between 2016 and 2020 was conducted. Surgical ope

SUBMITTER: Benissan-Messan D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10220402 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature