Factors Influencing the Entrustment of Resident Operative Autonomy: Comparing Perceptions of General Surgery Residents and Attending Surgeons.

ABSTRACT:

Background

General surgery residents may be underprepared for practice, due in part to declining operative autonomy during training. The factors that influence entrustment of autonomy in the operating room are unclear.

Objective

To identify and compare the factors that residents and faculty consider influential in entrustment of operative autonomy.

Methods

An anonymous survey of 29-item Likert-type scale (1-7, 1 = strongly disagree, 7 = strongly agree), 9 multiple-choice, and 4 open-ended questions was sent to 70 faculty and 45 residents in a large ACGME-approved general surgery residency program comprised of university, county, and VA hospitals in 2018.

Results

Sixty (86%) faculty and 38 (84%) residents responded. Faculty were more likely to identify resident-

SUBMITTER: Senders ZJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8527956 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature