What Defines a Transplant Surgeon? A Needs Assessment for Curricular Development in Transplant Surgery Fellowship Training

J. Fryer; D. A. DaRosa; E. Wang; L. Han; D. Axelrod; M. Ishitani; T. Baker; R. Knight; R. Sung; J. C. Magee; E. A. Pomfret; American Society of Transplant Surgery (ASTS)

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What Defines a Transplant Surgeon? A Needs Assessment for Curricular Development in Transplant Surgery Fellowship Training

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What Defines a Transplant Surgeon? A Needs Assessment for Curricular Development in Transplant Surgery Fellowship Training

J. Fryer, D. A. DaRosa, E. Wang, L. Han, D. Axelrod, M. Ishitani, T. Baker, R. Knight, R. Sung, J. C. Magee, …

American journal of transplantation, Vol.10(3), pp.664-674

03/01/2010

DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2009.02956.x

PMID: 20055807

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This study compares the perceptions of transplant surgery program directors (PDs) and recent fellowship graduates (RFs) regarding the adequacy of training and relevancy to practice of specific curricular content items in fellowship training. Surveys were sent to all American Society of Transplant Surgery approved fellowship PDs and all RFs in practice < 5 years. For operative procedures, the RFs considered the overall training to be less adequate than the PDs (p = 0.0117), while both groups considered the procedures listed to be relevant to practice (p = 0.8281). Regarding nonoperative patient care items, although RFs tended to rank many individual items lower, both groups generally agreed that the training was both adequate and relevant. For nonpatient care related items (i.e. transplant-related ethics, economics, research, etc.), both groups scored them low regarding their adequacy of training although RFs scored them significantly lower than PDs (p = 0.0006). Regarding their relevance to practice, while both groups considered these items relevant, RFs generally considered them more relevant than PDs. Therefore, although there is consensus on many items, significant differences exist between PDs and RFs regarding their perceptions of the adequacy of training and the relevance to practice of specific curriculum items in transplant surgery fellowship training.

Surgery

Life Sciences & Biomedicine

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Transplantation

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Title: Subtitle: What Defines a Transplant Surgeon? A Needs Assessment for Curricular Development in Transplant Surgery Fellowship Training
Creators: J. Fryer - Northwestern University
D. A. DaRosa - Northwestern University
E. Wang - Northwestern University
L. Han - Northwestern University
D. Axelrod - University of Vermont
M. Ishitani - Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN
T. Baker - Northwestern University
R. Knight - The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
R. Sung - University of Michigan
J. C. Magee - University of Michigan
E. A. Pomfret - Lahey Hospital and Medical Center
American Society of Transplant Surgery (ASTS)
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: American journal of transplantation, Vol.10(3), pp.664-674
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2009.02956.x
PMID: 20055807
NLM abbreviation: Am J Transplant
ISSN: 1600-6135
eISSN: 1600-6143
Publisher: Wiley
Number of pages: 11
Language: English
Date published: 03/01/2010
Academic Unit: Surgery
Record Identifier: 9984322944402771

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