Clinical Challenges in Surgical Education: Competency-Based Education

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Science, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Education

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Surgical training is evolving, and with advancing surgical techniques, the traditional “time-served” model of residency may not best serve the needs of our learners or patients. In this episode, we discuss recent efforts at the Indiana University surgical education program to implement a comprehensive laparoscopic cholecystectomy that utilizes all of the best practices of competency-based education. We’re joined by first author Dr. Betsy Huffman, along with her mentors Drs. Jennifer Choi, Matthew Ritter, and Dimitrios Stefanidis for a practical review of their pioneering work.

Learning Objectives:
· Review challenges to the current paradigm of surgical education
· Define competency-based education
· Discuss practical challenges facing surgical educators when implementing new curricula

References:
A competency-based laparoscopic cholecystectomy curriculum significantly improves
general surgery residents’ operative performance and decreases skill variability – https://doi.org/10.1097/SLA.0000000000004853

Ad referenced in episode: A team at the Brooke Army Medical Center is working to better define proficiency-based metrics for competency in commonly performed general surgery procedures. If you are a PGY4/5 general surgery resident or practicing surgeon who performs robotic assisted cholecystectomies or inguinal hernia repairs, reach out to the PI, Robert Laverty, MD, at [email protected], for more information on how you could be compensated up to $400 for recording and submitting those videos.

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