The Latino Surgical Society with Dr. Minerva Romero-Arenas

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Science, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Education

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Please join BTK education fellow, Nina Clark, MD (University of Washington) along with Elina Serrano, MD, MPH (University of Washington) and Minerva Romero Arenas, MD (Weill Cornell Medicine) for a discussion inspired by the experience of trainees who are underrepresented in medicine.

Latino Surgical Society: https://www.latinosurgicalsociety.org/
Society of Black Academic Surgeons: https://www.sbas.net/

References:
Yeo HL, Abelson JS, Symer MM, Mao J, Michelassi F, Bell R, Sedrakyan A, Sosa JA. Association of Time to Attrition in Surgical Residency With Individual Resident and Programmatic Factors. JAMA Surg. 2018 Jun 1;153(6):511-517. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2017.6202. PMID: 29466536; PMCID: PMC5875388.

McFarling, U.L. ‘It was stolen from me’: Black doctors are forced out of training programs at far higher rates than white residents. STAT. 6/20/2022. Accessed online: 10/1/2022. https://www.statnews.com/2022/06/20/black-doctors-forced-out-of-training-programs-at-far-higher-rates-than-white-residents/

Haruno LS, Chen X, Metzger M, et al. Racial and Sex Disparities in Resident Attrition Among Surgical Subspecialties. JAMA Surg. Published online February 08, 2023. doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2022.7640

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0:00.0	Behind the Night, the Surgery Podcast, relevant and engaging content designed to help you dominate the day.
0:23.0	Have you been working hard to dominate your surgical residency?
0:26.0	Do you want to help others to dominate no matter what stage of training they're in?
0:30.0	Hi to all of our BTK listeners. My name is Nina Clark, General Surgery resident at the University of Washington.
0:36.0	And I'm Jessica Marart, General Surgery resident at the University of Michigan.
0:39.0	We both have had the privilege of working as behind the knife education college for the past year, and we're excited to continue growing our team.
0:46.0	Are you a surgical resident interested and enthusiastic about surgical education?
0:51.0	BTK is offering a two year surgical education fellowship starting July 1st, 2023 and ending June 30th, 2025.
0:59.0	Only residents who are starting a two year block, a professional development time away from full-time clinical activity will be considered.
1:06.0	And you have to ensure that your institution and mentor approve of this fellowship.
1:11.0	Fellows will be deeply involved in the BTK activities.
1:14.0	The two of us have worked on an absite revamp, not tying video series, our new trauma video atlas, and a comprehensive student resource just to start.
1:23.0	While this is an unpaid internship, you'll have access to the all the behind the knife resources, like illustrators, editors, recording and video equipment, and more to help make high quality surgical education content.
1:35.0	Applications are due April 16th, and you can find the link to the application in our show notes or on our Twitter page at Behind the Knife.
1:43.0	You can also contact us at helloatbehindtheknife.org with any questions.
1:48.0	We've had a great time so far this year, and there's only more to come.
1:52.0	We hope you'll consider joining us.
1:55.0	Hi, everyone. I'm Nina Clark. I'm a general surgery resident currently in my research years at University of Washington, and I'm one of the surgical education fellows this year with behind the knife.
2:04.0	We're working on a couple of episodes that were really inspired by some recent work looking at the experience of trainees who are underrepresented in medicine.
2:12.0	In particular, there was a stat news article that came out last year looking at the experience of black residents that emphasized the discrimination that can lead to resident attrition.
2:21.0	This was supported by a JAMA surgery article from 2018 that showed high attrition rates among underrepresented and female surgical residents. Both of these will be linked in our show notes.
2:31.0	To help us tackle some of these topics today and kick things off, I'm joined by Dr. Minerva Romera-Arenas.
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