Article
Surgery
Emiko Kono, Urara Isozumi, Sachiyo Nomura, Kae Okoshi, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Hiroaki Miyata, Itaru Yasufuku, Hiromichi Maeda, Junichi Sakamoto, Kazuhisa Uchiyama, Yoshihiro Kakeji, Kazuhiro Yoshida, Yuko Kitagawa
Summary: This cross-sectional study found that female surgeons had less surgical experience than male surgeons in Japan, and this gap tended to widen with an increase in years of experience, especially for medium- and high-difficulty operations.
Article
Surgery
Emiko Kono, Urara Isozumi, Sachiyo Nomura, Kae Okoshi, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Hiroaki Miyata, Itaru Yasufuku, Hiromichi Maeda, Junichi Sakamoto, Kazuhisa Uchiyama, Yoshihiro Kakeji, Kazuhiro Yoshida, Yuko Kitagawa
Summary: This study found that female surgeons in Japan have less surgical experience than male surgeons, and this gap tends to widen with an increase in years of experience, especially for medium- and high-difficulty operations. The gender disparity in surgical experience needs to be eliminated, so that female surgeons can advance to leadership positions.
Article
Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Zorays Moazzam, Henrique Araujo Lima, Laura Alaimo, Yutaka Endo, Aslam Ejaz, Joal Beane, Mary Dillhoff, Jordan Cloyd, Timothy M. M. Pawlik
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the impact of surgeon and hospital pancreatic subspecialization on patient outcomes. The results showed that greater pancreatic subspecialization was associated with improved postoperative outcomes, including achieving a textbook outcome, being discharged home, and lower odds of experiencing failure to rescue. This association was observed in both low-volume and high-volume hospitals.
JOURNAL OF GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Norman D. Hogikyan, Lulia A. Kana, Andrew G. Shuman, Janice I. Firn
Summary: The study explores the mechanisms of how trust develops between otolaryngologists and their patients through qualitative realist thematic analysis. Results revealed that trust formation in the surgeon-patient relationship is influenced by various factors such as prior knowledge, trust across various contexts, and interpersonal connection during the clinical encounter. The key to trust formation lies in the interpersonal connection between surgeons and patients.
PATIENT EDUCATION AND COUNSELING
(2021)
Article
Ophthalmology
Mads F. Jacobsen, Lars M. Holm, Jesper H. Erichsen, Lars Konge, Volkert Siersma, Morten Cour, Ann Sofia S. Thomsen
Summary: This study investigated the impact of cataract surgeon experience on patient outcomes. Surgeries performed by novice surgeons resulted in significantly lower visual acuity and greater central corneal thickness compared to experienced surgeons.
ACTA OPHTHALMOLOGICA
(2021)
Article
Surgery
Ya-Wen Chen, Maggie L. Westfal, David C. Chang, Cassandra M. Kelleher
Summary: The study revealed that female surgeons perform less complex cases compared to their male counterparts. This sex disparity increases with seniority and has not improved over the study period.
Article
Medicine, Research & Experimental
Matthew J. Urban, Hannah J. Brown, Jae Kim, Michael Eggerstedt, Joseph B. Debettencourt, Inna Husain, Peter Papagiannopoulos, Bobby A. Tajudeen, Pete S. Batra, Phillip S. LoSavio
Summary: The study found that over 90% of patients recognized that resident physicians are directly involved in delivering care at teaching hospitals. Patients who received educational pamphlets were more aware of residents' involvement in their surgical procedure compared to the control group. Additionally, the majority of patients in the pamphlet group wanted to know how much of their procedure was performed by a resident, and agreed that residents improved the quality of their care.
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Meganne N. Ferrel, Eleanor F. Gerhard, Christine M. Johnstad, Kristin Nesbitt, Sara J. Pereira, Amy G. Fiedler
Summary: This study examines the career pathway and trajectory of female adult cardiac surgeons and finds that women remain a small minority in this field and the gender gap widens. The study reveals that the average number of years in practice for female adult cardiac surgeons is 13.1, with only 25.4% of all female cardiothoracic diplomates categorized as adult cardiac surgeons, while 37.9% are in other subspecialty practice. It also highlights that 33.3% of female adult cardiac surgeons practice privately while the rest are in academic practice.
JOURNAL OF THORACIC AND CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY
(2023)
Article
Surgery
Eric Walser, Chris J. Zhang, Sayra Cristancho, Lorelei Lingard, Michael Ott
Summary: This study examined the perception of stakeholders in surgical education regarding trainee workload. The results showed that both residents and faculty had accurate perception of task categories but lower perception of individual tasks. Furthermore, both groups underestimated the time spent on indirect patient care.
Article
Clinical Neurology
Ahmed Aoude, Madison Litowski, Sultan Aldebeyan, Charles Fisher, Hamilton Hall, Neil Manson, Christopher S. Bailey, Henry Ahn, Edward Abraham, Andrew Nataraj, Jerome Paquet, Alexandra Stratton, Sean Christie, David Cadotte, Fred Nicholls, Alex Soroceanu, Y. Raja Rampersaud, Kenneth C. Thomas
Summary: This study compared patient and surgeon expectations for spine surgeries, revealing that patients tend to be more optimistic than surgeons. Patient age plays a role in the agreement between treating physicians and patients regarding surgical expectations.
GLOBAL SPINE JOURNAL
(2021)
Article
Surgery
Naikhoba C. O. Munabi, Meredith D. Xepoleas, Kella L. Vangsness, Sara Koualla, William P. Magee, Caroline A. Yao
Summary: The study evaluated the impact of an all-female surgical team on Moroccan attitudes. After a surgery mission with all-female volunteers in Oujda, Morocco, patients were surveyed. The results showed that increased visibility of women improved patient attitudes towards female providers.
WORLD JOURNAL OF SURGERY
(2021)
Article
Surgery
Brittni Driscoll, Laura D. Leonard, Alexandra Kovar, Joshua Billings, Sarah E. Tevis, Simon P. Kim, Ethan Cumbler
Summary: This study explores surgeons' perspectives on integrating PROMs into clinical practice using a qualitative methodology.
JOURNAL OF SURGICAL RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Seth Quinn, Warqaa Akram, Scarlett Hao, Michael D. Honaker
Summary: This study compares outcomes in older patients undergoing emergent surgical treatment for acute diverticulitis. The results show that mortality is higher in older patients undergoing Hartmann procedure, while morbidity is lower in patients aged 80 years and above undergoing primary anastomosis with diverting loop ileostomy. Readmission rates vary depending on the procedure performed. Age should be carefully considered in emergency diverticulitis surgery.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION
(2022)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Shay Bess, Breton Line, Christopher Ames, Douglas Burton, Gregory Mundis, Robert Eastlack, Robert Hart, Munish Gupta, Eric Klineberg, Han Jo Kim, Richard Hostin, Khaled Kebaish, Virgine Lafage, Renaud Lafage, Frank Schwab, Christopher Shaffrey, Justin S. Smith, International Spine Study Grp
Summary: The study aimed to evaluate whether patients who underwent adult spinal deformity surgery would choose to undergo the same surgery again and to compare the opinions of patients and surgeons. The study found that 18.6% of patients were unsure or unwilling to undergo the surgery again. Patients who were unwilling to undergo the surgery again had preoperative depression, higher preoperative opioid use, worse postoperative patient reported outcomes, more complications requiring surgery, and higher postoperative opioid use. More research is needed to understand patient expectations and improve patient experiences following ASD surgery.
Article
Surgery
Brigitte K. Smith, Samuel R. G. Finlayson, Bruce A. Perler, Angela P. Presson, Chelsea M. Allen, Benjamin S. Brooke
Summary: This study evaluates whether graduates of integrated vascular surgery residency (IVSR) programs achieve similar surgical outcomes in clinical practice as compared to graduates of vascular surgery fellowships (VSF). The findings suggest that despite fewer total years of training, graduates of IVSR programs achieve equivalent surgical outcomes as fellowship-trained vascular surgeons once in practice.
Article
Surgery
Courtney A. Green, Emily Huang, Nina W. Zhao, Patricia S. O'Sullivan, Edward Kim, Hueylan Chern
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SURGERY
(2018)
Review
Education, Scientific Disciplines
Justin L. Sewell, Lauren A. Maggio, Olle ten Cate, Tamara van Gog, John Q. Young, Patricia S. O'Sullivan
Article
Education, Scientific Disciplines
Jody E. Steinauer, Arianne Teherani, Felisa Preskill, Olle ten Cate, Patricia O'Sullivan
TEACHING AND LEARNING IN MEDICINE
(2019)
Article
Education, Scientific Disciplines
Justin L. Sewell, John Q. Young, Christy K. Boscardin, Olle ten Cate, Patricia S. O'Sullivan
Article
Education, Scientific Disciplines
Jody E. Steinauer, Arianne Teherani, Robin Mangini, Jessie Chien, Olle ten Cate, Patricia O'Sullivan
Article
Education, Scientific Disciplines
Justin L. Sewell, Lekshmi Santhosh, Patricia S. O'Sullivan
Editorial Material
Education, Scientific Disciplines
Patricia S. O'Sullivan, Yvonne Steinert, David M. Irby
Article
Education, Scientific Disciplines
Leslie Sheu, Sarah Goglin, Sally Collins, Patricia Cornett, Sara Clemons, Patricia S. O'Sullivan
Summary: The study found that clinical electives during the clerkship year can play a significant role in helping medical students better understand their career choices and promote career development.
TEACHING AND LEARNING IN MEDICINE
(2022)
Review
Education, Scientific Disciplines
Lynnea M. Mills, Christy Boscardin, Elizabeth A. Joyce, Olle ten Cate, Patricia S. O'Sullivan
Summary: Research shows that emotion plays a crucial role in medical learners' remediation, yet medical educators often overlook the importance of incorporating emotion into remediation approaches. Leveraging emotion in remediation programme design could potentially enhance the learning process for medical trainees.
Article
Education, Scientific Disciplines
Martha J. Elster, Patricia S. O'Sullivan, Virginie Muller-Juge, Leslie Sheu, Sunitha V. Kaiser, Karen E. Hauer
Summary: The study found that coaches and funded educators generally have higher self-efficacy and job satisfaction, while burnout is more prevalent. Educator roles provide rewards that enhance job satisfaction, but also bring about competing demands, potentially leading to burnout.
PERSPECTIVES ON MEDICAL EDUCATION
(2022)
Article
Education, Scientific Disciplines
Brian C. Gin, Olle Ten Cate, Patricia S. O'Sullivan, Karen E. Hauer, Christy Boscardin
Summary: Using artificial intelligence and natural language processing, this study identified feedback characteristics associated with supervisors' trust decisions during observation encounters of medical students. Trust levels were linked to the level of detail, feedback type, and task type. The feedback reflected in the entrustment framework seemed to guide goal-setting and the necessary details to achieve those goals.
Article
Education, Scientific Disciplines
Jonathan S. Pai, Heidi E. Kirsch, Patricia S. O'Sullivan, Patricia A. Cornett
Summary: This study examines how and when foundational science (FS) discussion occurs on internal medicine teaching rounds. It reveals that FS knowledge is primarily transmitted as separate pearls and suggests a learner-centered model to integrate FS into clinical reasoning.
Article
Education, Scientific Disciplines
Jody E. Steinauer, Patricia S. O'Sullivan, Felisa Preskill, Jessie Chien, Cassandra Carver, Jema Turk, Olle Ten Cate, Arianne Teherani
Summary: Residents are likely to experience negative emotions towards patients due to challenges to their identities as physicians, learners, teachers, and workers. They desire curricular support such as debriefs and communication skills training to help manage these interactions.
TEACHING AND LEARNING IN MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Education, Scientific Disciplines
Leslie Sheu, Leslie Bernal Charondo, Patricia S. O'Sullivan
Summary: The study found that faculty members' motivations for engaging in unfunded educational leadership positions stem from their identity as clinician-educators and a sense of purpose and duty. They are sustained by the satisfaction derived from witnessing the positive impact they have on learners' career development and skills building, as well as personal benefits in the mastery of educator skills and enhanced visibility as educators.
Article
Education, Scientific Disciplines
Lynnea M. Mills, Patricia S. O'Sullivan, Olle ten Cate, Christy Boscardin
Summary: Feedback orientation is a valuable concept to understand medical learners' attitudes toward feedback's role in their development. The study found that medical learners' overall feedback orientation remains mostly stable throughout their training, with utility being the highest domain and feedback self-efficacy being the lowest.
Editorial Material
Surgery
Meghal Shah, Tejas S. Sathe, Sukriti Bansal, Anai N. Kothari, Sophie Dream
JOURNAL OF SURGICAL RESEARCH
(2024)
Letter
Surgery
Zafer Turkyilmaz, Ramazan Karabulut, Kaan Sonmez
JOURNAL OF SURGICAL RESEARCH
(2024)
Letter
Surgery
Priyanka Jadhav, Gerald Gollin
JOURNAL OF SURGICAL RESEARCH
(2024)
Review
Surgery
Kheira Hireche, Ludovic Canaud, Pierre Antoine Peyron, Linda Sakhri, Isabelle Serres, Sanaa Kamel, Youcef Lounes, Thomas Gandet, Pierre Alric
Summary: This study evaluated the elastic properties of commonly used vascular substitutes for pulmonary artery replacement and compared their compliance and stiffness indexes to human pulmonary artery. The results showed that allogenic arterial grafts appeared to be the most suitable vascular substitutes in terms of compliance and stiffness for PA replacement.
JOURNAL OF SURGICAL RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Surgery
Margaret Siu, Aixa Perez Coulter, Heather M. Grant, Reginald Alouidor, Michael Tirabassi
Summary: There is no significant difference in adverse respiratory events between intubated, critically ill patients requiring operative intervention who are kept NPO for 6 hours or longer compared to those kept NPO for less than 6 hours. Patients commonly experience periods of fasting much longer than the recommended 6-hour period by the American Society of Anesthesiologists.
JOURNAL OF SURGICAL RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Surgery
Whitney Elks, Allison G. McNickle, Matthew Kelecy, Kavita Batra, Shirley Wong, Shawn Wang, Lisa Angotti, Deborah A. Kuhls, Charles St Hill, Syed F. Saquib, Paul J. Chestovich, Douglas R. Fraser
Summary: This study aimed to compare the effects of early and late enteral feeding after PEG placement on achieving nutritional therapy goals and adverse outcomes. The results showed that patients with early initiation of feeds achieved a higher percentage of goals on day 0 without an increased rate of adverse events.
JOURNAL OF SURGICAL RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Surgery
Manisha B. Bhatia, Cassandra M. Anderson, Abdiwahab N. Hussein, Brian Opondo, Nereah Aruwa, Otieno Okumu, Sarah G. Fisher, Tasha Sparks Joplin, JoAnna L. Hunter-Squires, Brian W. Gray, Peter W. Saula
Summary: This study aimed to understand postoperative pediatric nutrition practices in Kenya and the United States. The results showed that in the United States, patients initiated enteral nutrition earlier and had shorter hospital stays. However, in Kenya, patients initiated enteral nutrition earlier but had no significant difference in hospital stays.
JOURNAL OF SURGICAL RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Surgery
David P. Stonko, Joseph Edwards, Hossam Abdou, Rebecca Treffalls, Patrick Walker, Jonathan J. Morrison
Summary: Raising mean arterial pressure (MAP) >90 mmHg with norepinephrine can increase gastroduodenal artery (GDA) flow and delay bowel ischemia.
JOURNAL OF SURGICAL RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Surgery
David R. Mann, Kathryn E. Engelhardt, Barry C. Gibney, Macelyn E. Batten, Eric C. Klipsch, Rupak Mukherjee, Ian C. Bostock
Summary: Pathologic upstaging is associated with decreased overall survival in cT1b esophageal cancer. Esophagectomy has better survival outcomes compared to endoscopic local tumor excision. Neoadjuvant chemoradiation therapy does not improve overall survival in cT1b lesions.
JOURNAL OF SURGICAL RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Surgery
Ross Mudgway, Zachary Tran, Juan C. Quispe Espiritu, Woo Bin Bong, Hayden Schultz, Vamsi Vemireddy, Aarthy Kannappan, Marcos Michelotti, Kaushik Mukherjee, Jeffrey Quigley, Keith Scharf, Daniel Srikureja, Sharon S. Lum, Esther Wu
Summary: Comparison of medium-term outcomes between robotic-assisted cholecystectomy (RC) and laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) using validated quality of life (QoL) and pain assessments did not show significant differences.
JOURNAL OF SURGICAL RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Surgery
Ningjie Chen, Haitao Wang, Yang Shao, Jincun Yang, Guodong Song
Summary: This study aimed to compare the therapeutic effects of activated platelet-rich plasma (PRP) prepared from elderly individuals and young adults in treating pressure ulcers (PUs). The results showed that PRP from young adults had higher platelet concentrations and greater production of growth factors, leading to better wound healing.
JOURNAL OF SURGICAL RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Surgery
Brendin R. Beaulieu-Jones, Margaret T. Berrigan, Kortney A. Robinson, Jayson S. Marwaha, Tara S. Kent, Gabriel A. Brat
Summary: Introduction: Prescription opioids, including those prescribed after surgery, have greatly contributed to the US opioid epidemic. Educating opioid prescribers is a crucial component of ensuring the safe use of opioids among surgical patients. This study implemented an annual education curriculum for new surgical prescribers, resulting in significant improvements in knowledge and comfort levels. However, there remains a persistent knowledge and comfort gap among these prescribers.
JOURNAL OF SURGICAL RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Surgery
Sneha G. Bhat, Madhuri Nagaraj, Courtney Balentine, Timothy Hogan, Jennie Meier, Hillary Prince, Kareem Abdelfattah, Herbert Zeh, Benjamin Levi
Summary: This pilot study examined the effects of a structured mental fitness program on academic surgeons and found significant improvement in Positive Intelligence (PQ) scores, as well as increased connectedness and shared language among participants. However, there were no significant changes in sleep, well-being, or teaching evaluations.
JOURNAL OF SURGICAL RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Surgery
Kristin E. Cox, Michael A. Turner, Siamak Amirfakhri, Thinzar M. Lavin, Mojgan Hosseini, Pradipta Ghosh, Marygorret Obonyo, Takashi Murakami, Robert M. Hoffman, Paul J. Yazaki, Michael Bouvet
Summary: This study demonstrates the potential of using humanized anti-carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) antibodies conjugated with near-infrared dyes to specifically label gastric cancers in mouse models. Orthotopic models showed bright and specific labeling with more than ten times higher tumor-to-background ratios compared to the control. This tumor-specific fluorescent antibody has promising potential as a clinical tool for improving visualization of gastric cancer margins during surgical resection.
JOURNAL OF SURGICAL RESEARCH
(2024)
Review
Surgery
Sarah Maki, Melissa Leon, Emily Glenn, Tiffany Tanner, Crystal Krause
Summary: This scoping review analyzed the literature on the use of broadband personality tests in the bariatric surgical population to optimize weight loss outcomes. The study found significant associations between personality scales and weight loss, but inconsistent reporting of outcome measures made it challenging to draw concrete conclusions. The American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery recommends standardization of outcome reporting to improve the reliability of predicting weight loss outcomes.
JOURNAL OF SURGICAL RESEARCH
(2024)