EQIP's First Year: A Step Closer to Higher Quality in Surgical Education.

Autor: Joshi ART; Surgical Council on Resident Education, American Board of Surgery Philadelphia, Pennsylvania., Nfonsam V; University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona., Relles DM; Lehigh Valley Health Network Allentown, Pennsylvania., Murphy S; Thought Leadership Institute Bonita Springs, Florida., Ciolkosz J; Thought Leadership Institute Bonita Springs, Florida., Fise T; Association of Program Directors in Surgery Towson, Maryland., Klingensmith ME; Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Chicago, Illinois., Hickey M; Surgical Council on Resident Education, American Board of Surgery Philadelphia, Pennsylvania., Brunsvold ME; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota., Korndorffer JR Jr; Stanford University Palo Alto, California., Jarman BT; Gundersen Health LaCrosse, Wisconsin., Smink DS; Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, Massachusetts., Terhune K; Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tennessee., Kmiec K; Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tennessee., Harrington DT; Brown University School of Medicine Providence, Rhode Island. Electronic address: david.harrington@brownphysicians.org.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of surgical education [J Surg Educ] 2022 Nov-Dec; Vol. 79 (6), pp. e173-e180. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jul 14.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsurg.2022.05.018
Abstrakt: Objective: To describe the first year of the Educational Quality Improvement Program (EQIP) DESIGN: The Educational Quality Improvement Program (EQIP) was formed by the Association of Program Directors in Surgery (APDS) in 2018 as a continuous educational quality improvement program. Over 18 months, thirteen discrete goals for the establishment of EQIP were refined and executed through a collaborative effort involving leaders in surgical education. Alpha and beta pilots were conducted to refine the data queries and collection processes. A highly-secure, doubly-deidentified database was created for the ingestion of resident and program data.
Setting & Participants: 36 surgical training programs with 1264 trainees and 1500 faculty members were included in the dataset. 51,516 ERAS applications to programs were also included. Uni- and multi-variable analysis was then conducted.
Results: EQIP was successfully deployed within the timeline described in 2020. Data from the ACGME, ABS, and ERAS were merged with manually entered data by programs and successfully ingested into the EQIP database. Interactive dashboards have been constructed for use by programs to compare to the national cohort. Risk-adjusted multivariable analysis suggests that increased time in a technical skills lab was associated with increased success on the ABS's Qualifying Examination, alone. Increased time in a technical skills lab and the presence of a formal teaching curriculum were associated with increased success on both the ABS's Qualifying and Certifying Examination. Program type may be of some consequence in predicting success on the Qualifying Examination.
Conclusions: The APDS has proved the concept that a highly secure database for the purpose of continuous risk-adjusted quality improvement in surgical education can be successfully deployed. EQIP will continue to improve and hopes to include an increasing number of programs as the barriers to participation are overcome.
(Copyright © 2022 Association of Program Directors in Surgery. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
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