TY - JOUR
T1 - Expectations of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Fellows; Do We Meet Them?
AU - Pagkratis, Spyridon
AU - Cho, Edward E.
AU - Lewis, Frances
AU - Miller, Katie
AU - Osman, Houssam
AU - Doyle, Maria B.M.
AU - Jeyarajah, D. Rohan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Association of Program Directors in Surgery
PY - 2019/11/1
Y1 - 2019/11/1
N2 - Objective: There are 16 accredited hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) fellowships in North America. The purpose of this study is to portray the expectations of the incoming HPB fellows about their training and its implication on their career. Design: A 29-questions survey was sent out to all HPB fellows starting in August 2017. The survey was divided in 3 sections depicting background, in-training and postfellowship expectations. Descriptive statistics were generated for aggregate survey responses. Setting: This study was performed through an online questionnaire that was sent to the participants via e-mail. The answers were processed in our offices in Methodist Richardson Medical Center, in Richardson, Texas which is a private tertiary medical center part of the Methodist Health System. Participants: Participants were all incoming HPB Fellows (In HPB fellowship programs accredited by the Fellowship Council) starting their fellowship in August 2017. Results: We had a 94% response rate. Forty-six percent of fellows anticipate doing about 150 to 250 HPB cases during the fellowship, and all 15 fellows anticipate having at least 1 publication during fellowship. Despite that >90% of fellows believe that minimally invasive surgery (MIS) approaches will be more frequently utilized in HPB surgery, only 3/15 anticipate being able to apply MIS techniques and only 54% will be robotically trained. Interestingly the majority of fellows believe that the attending should be performing the case the first few months. Conclusion: The trainees believe that case volume is the most important factor for choosing a fellowship and for adequate training. Most of the fellows anticipate doing adequate number of cases but only the minority feels they will be adequately trained in MIS-robotic techniques.
AB - Objective: There are 16 accredited hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) fellowships in North America. The purpose of this study is to portray the expectations of the incoming HPB fellows about their training and its implication on their career. Design: A 29-questions survey was sent out to all HPB fellows starting in August 2017. The survey was divided in 3 sections depicting background, in-training and postfellowship expectations. Descriptive statistics were generated for aggregate survey responses. Setting: This study was performed through an online questionnaire that was sent to the participants via e-mail. The answers were processed in our offices in Methodist Richardson Medical Center, in Richardson, Texas which is a private tertiary medical center part of the Methodist Health System. Participants: Participants were all incoming HPB Fellows (In HPB fellowship programs accredited by the Fellowship Council) starting their fellowship in August 2017. Results: We had a 94% response rate. Forty-six percent of fellows anticipate doing about 150 to 250 HPB cases during the fellowship, and all 15 fellows anticipate having at least 1 publication during fellowship. Despite that >90% of fellows believe that minimally invasive surgery (MIS) approaches will be more frequently utilized in HPB surgery, only 3/15 anticipate being able to apply MIS techniques and only 54% will be robotically trained. Interestingly the majority of fellows believe that the attending should be performing the case the first few months. Conclusion: The trainees believe that case volume is the most important factor for choosing a fellowship and for adequate training. Most of the fellows anticipate doing adequate number of cases but only the minority feels they will be adequately trained in MIS-robotic techniques.
KW - Hepato-pancreato-biliaty fellowship
KW - Medical Knowledge
KW - Practice-Based Learning and Improvement
KW - Professionalism
KW - autonomy during fellowship
KW - minimally invasive surgery
KW - robotic surgery training
KW - surgical education
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jsurg.2019.06.009
DO - 10.1016/j.jsurg.2019.06.009
M3 - Article
C2 - 31239233
AN - SCOPUS:85067570890
SN - 1931-7204
VL - 76
SP - 1546
EP - 1555
JO - Journal of Surgical Education
JF - Journal of Surgical Education
IS - 6
ER -