Journal Review in Surgical Education: Unions and Wellness

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🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

How do we actually improve wellness? How do surgery trainees advocate for themselves as both learners and employees? In this final surgical education episode with Matt Chia MD MS and Karl Bilimoria MD MS, we review two articles discussing unions and wellness in surgical training. We’re joined by Meg Smith MD MS, Brian Brajcich MD MS, and Darci Foote MD MS to tackle this difficult topic and open the discussion for what’s next in surgical education.

Learning Objectives:

· Identify potential benefits and limitations of unionization in surgery training

· Describe strategies used by program leadership to improve wellness in surgery

References:

National Evaluation of the Association Between Resident Labor Union Participation and Surgical Resident Well-being https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.23412

How Program Directors Understand General Surgery Resident Wellness - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsurg.2022.07.022

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0:00.0	Behind the Night, the surgery podcast, relevant and engaging content designed to help you dominate the day.
0:13.0	Hello and welcome back to Behind the Knife. I'm Matt Chia and I'm here with Dr. Carl
0:26.9	Bill Moria for this latest and final journal club episode from our surgical
0:30.9	education team. Carl, thanks for being here today and thanks for an awesome couple
0:35.0	years doing the podcast together. Hey, Matt, thanks for setting all these podcasts up and
0:39.5	thrilled to be here with you today. I'm also excited to welcome as a guest
0:43.7	discussion to the podcast, Dr. Meg Smith. Dr. Smith is a vascular surgery fellow at the University
0:49.2	of Michigan having completed medical school and general surgery residency also in Ann Arbor.
0:54.6	She's previously president of the House Officers Association there. Dr. Smith, thank you for your
0:59.0	time and welcome to the podcast. Thank you so much. Happy to be here. I'm also excited to introduce
1:04.7	the first authors of the articles for today's episode, Dr. Brian Brassage and Darcy Foot. Dr.
1:10.6	Brassage is in his final year of the general surgery program here at Northwestern and is headed off
1:15.2	to the Cleveland Clinic next year for colorectal surgery fellowship. Dr. Foot is likewise a chief resident
1:20.6	in general surgery at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan and will be headed to Johns Hopkins
1:25.4	next year for endocrine surgery fellowship. Dr. Brassage, Dr. Foot, welcome to the podcast.
1:30.8	Thank you for having me. Thanks, Matt. Happy to be here. So I'll start off by summarizing this
1:35.4	first article, which the general theme that we'll be talking about today is focused on resident
1:40.2	wellness, specifically with some attention to unions and other things that can be done to help
1:44.8	improve resident wellness. This first article by Brassage et al was titled the National
1:50.1	Evaluation of the Association between Resident Labor Union Participation and Surgical Resident
1:55.9	Wellbeing. This study was published in JAMA Open Network in 2021 and was a cross-sectional
2:01.5	evaluation of the association between resident labor unions and wellness measures in 5,700
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