A Strategy to Improve Quality of Outpatient Education for Residents and Medical Students on a Vascular Surgery Service
| Autor: | Carol A. Raviola, Keith D. Calligaro, Matthew J. Dougherty |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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Service (business)
medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Data Collection media_common.quotation_subject Internship and Residency Length of hospitalization General Medicine Vascular surgery Health care delivery Health care Emergency medicine Ambulatory Care medicine Humans Surgery Quality (business) Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business Vascular Surgical Procedures media_common Abdominal surgery Accreditation |
| Zdroj: | Annals of Vascular Surgery. 15:288-293 |
| ISSN: | 0890-5096 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s100160010077 |
| Popis: | In the current era of same-day admissions and decreased length of hospitalization for major vascular operations, education of residents and medical students in the outpatient setting has become an increasingly challenging problem. We developed a strategy to provide improved outpatient experience for advanced vascular surgery residents (VSRs), general surgery residents (GSRs), and medical students (MSs) on a vascular surgery service. A survey of program directors and VSRs at accredited vascular surgery fellowships in the United States and Canada was undertaken to determine the manner in which outpatient education was accomplished and the amount of time devoted to pre- and postoperative patient evaluation. The survey revealed that VSRs, GSRs, and MSs spent 1 or more days in clinic at approximately half of accredited vascular surgery programs. There were no appreciable differences in time spent in clinic for different levels of trainees. VSRs preoperatively evaluated at least half of their patients at approximately two-thirds of the programs, while at the other third of the programs they preoperatively evaluated one-quarter or less of their patients before surgery. GSRs preoperatively evaluated at least half of their patients at 50% of programs, according to program directors, and at 69% of programs, according to VSRs. Because of recent changes in health care delivery and the effect of these changes on resident training, outpatient education of VSRs, GSRs, and MSs will require increased attention on the part of vascular surgeons involved with their education. increasing time demands and decreasing reimbursements for vascular surgeons as a result of managed health care may make this goal increasingly difficult to accomplish. Improved strategies and extra efforts are necessary to ensure that trainees obtain sufficient experience to evaluate vascular patients pre- and postoperatively and maintain high quality of care for vascular surgery patients. |
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