Identifying Strategies for Struggling Surgery Residents.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Struggling residents are not uncommon in general surgery. Early identification of these residents and effective remediation remain imperfect.

Materials and methods

We performed a survey of program directors (PD) across all general surgery residencies. Survey questions included the following: demographic information about the program and PD, 10 vignettes about hypothetical residents struggling in various ACGME milestones to assess how PDs would address these deficiencies, and self-reported PD preparedness and availability of resources to support struggling residents.

Results

In total, we received 82 responses to our survey. All PDs who participated in our study reported having struggling residents in their program. The three most common ways struggling resid

SUBMITTER: Santosa KB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10433882 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature