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Residents reluctant to recommend DNR to patients
BOSTON – Medical residents in the United States appear to understand that cardiopulmonary resuscitation or intubation is highly unlikely to benefit patients with advanced cancers at the end of life, but the majority of residents surveyed said that they do…
Reduced resident duty hours haven’t changed patient outcomes
Patient mortality and morbidity outcomes have not changed since the most recent round of reforms to medical residents’ duty hours in 2011, according to two of the first nationwide studies to assess these “improvements,” which both were published online Dec.…
Steps to incorporate business knowledge into the medical school curriculum
Declining reimbursements, health care law changes, and increased costs means the modern physician needs to have knowledge in business, law, and medicine. In today’s health care environment business acumen is becoming a necessity few practices can survive without. A recent…
Residents, postop complications linked
BOSTON – Resident participation in emergency general surgery cases was independently associated with a host of complications – pulmonary embolism, surgical site infections, and unplanned reoperation in a secondary analysis of the American College of Surgeons prospective National Surgical Quality…
Welcome Our New Resident Editor
We are pleased to have Dr. Sapan S. Desai come on board as our Resident/Fellow Editor for the next year. Dr. Desai was selected from an excellent candidate pool who submitted their credentials as well as samples of their writings.…
SVS Resident Research Prize given to AAA study
Dr. Nathan D. Airhart, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, was the recipient of this year’s SVS Foundation Resident Research Prize Paper, which was presented at the Vascular Annual Meeting as part of the William J. von Liebig Forum,…
General Residents See Fewer Aortic Surgeries
MILWAUKEE – General surgery residents in a community-based residency program experienced a significant 49% decline in open aortic surgeries over the last decade, an analysis showed. In 2000-2001, residents were exposed to 20-25 open aortic cases per year, but now…
Applying Education Theory to Vascular Training
Citing a revolution in the way surgeons learn their craft, Dr. Erica L. Mitchell and Dr. Sonal Arora present an analysis of vascular training to identify key learning points and needs as residents move from novice to expert. Their report…
APDVS: Tapping the Minds of Vascular Trainees
CHICAGO – Vascular surgery trainees are increasingly turning to online texts for clinical information and seek more training on the business aspects of vascular surgery and noninvasive laboratory studies, according to a survey by the Association of Program Directors in…
Impact of Fellowship Programs on Residents’ Case Logs Examined
BOCA RATON, FLA. – Coexisting subspecialty fellowship programs have at most only minimal adverse impact on general surgery residency training operative volumes, according to a national study sponsored by the American Board of Surgery. The analysis also demonstrated that fellowship-bound…