Expanding Resident Conferences While Tailoring Them to Level of Training: A Longitudinal Study

Interventions That Affect Resident Performance on the American Board of Surgery In-Training Examination: A Systematic Review

“…8 There were 8 articles evaluating the effect of didactic conferences on resident performance on the ABSITE. [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19] The design and major findings of these studies are summarized in Table 2. These were generally resident-directed or faculty-directed structured teaching conferences.…”

Hand Education for Emergency Medicine Residents: Results of a Pilot Program

“…[13][14] The emergency medicine residents who rotated on the hand surgery service were taught in this model. Rotators participated in hand surgery clinics (one-on-one interaction with the attending physician), evaluated hand surgery consultations (direct care provision/coordination with the chief resident and attending physician), assisted in surgery (second assistant along with junior or chief resident), and participated in conferences (3 to 5 residents with 1 attending physician).…”

Retrospective Evaluation of Residents' American Board of Surgery In-Service Training Examination (ABSITE) Scores as a Tool to Evaluate Changes Made in a Basic Science Curriculum

“…Farrohki et al studied a level-specific didactic curriculum, and although overall resident satisfaction and resident attendance rates were improved substantially, ABSITE scores were not affected significantly by the change in curriculum structure. 11 It also should be mentioned that our series is set up in such a way that the earlier lectures (July through January, before the ABSITE) are weighted more heavily toward basic science topics, again potentially benefiting the junior residents to a certain degree. Interestingly, several other authors observed absent or insignificant score increases in various senior-level PGY subgroups when evaluating curriculum changes using the ABSITE.…”