The APDS General Surgery Education Quality Improvement Program (EQIP).

Autor: Brunsvold ME; University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Electronic address: mbrunsvo@umn.edu., Fise TF; Association of Program Directors in Surgery, Bethesda, Maryland., Hickey M; Surgical Council on Resident Education, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania., Jarman BT; Association of Program Directors in Surgery, Bethesda, Maryland; Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation, La Crosse, Wisconsin., Joshi ART; Surgical Council on Resident Education, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania., Klingensmith ME; Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, Chicago, Illinois., Korndorffer JR Jr; Stanford University, Stanford, California., Nfonsam VN; University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona., Relles DM; Lehigh Valley Health Network Allentown, Pennsylvania., Smink DS; Association of Program Directors in Surgery, Bethesda, Maryland; Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts., Harrington DT; Association of Program Directors in Surgery, Bethesda, Maryland; Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of surgical education [J Surg Educ] 2022 Jul-Aug; Vol. 79 (4), pp. 867-874. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Mar 30.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsurg.2022.02.010
Abstrakt: Background: Although the ACGME has called for outcomes-based evaluation of residency programs, few metrics or benchmarks exist connecting educational processes with resident educational outcomes. To address this deficiency, a national Education Quality Improvement Program (EQIP) for General Surgery training is proposed.
Methods: We describe the initial efforts to create this platform. In addition, a national survey was administered to 330 Program Directors to assess their interest in and concerns about a continuous educational quality improvement project.
Results: We demonstrate that through a collaborative process and the support of the Association of Program Directors in Surgery (APDS), we were able to develop the groundwork for a national surgical educational improvement project, now called EQIP. The survey response rate was 45.8% (152 of 332 programs) representing a mix of university (55.3%), university-affiliated (18.4%), independent (24.3%), and military (2.0%) programs. Most respondents (66.2%) had not previously heard of EQIP. Most respondents (69.7%) believe that educational outcomes can be measured. The majority of respondents indicated they believed EQIP could be successful (57%). Only 2.3% thought EQIP would not be successful. Almost all programs (98.7%) expressed a willingness to participate, although 19.1% did not believe that they had adequate resources to participate.
Conclusion: The APDS EQIP platform holds promise as a useful and achievable method to obtain educational outcomes data. These data can be used as a basis for continuous surgical educational quality improvement. General Surgery Program Directors have expressed enthusiasm for EQIP and are willing to participate in the program examining outcomes of General Surgery training programs, with an ultimate goal of improving overall residency training.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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