What is it about?
Resident clinics give the opportunity for surgeons-in-training to take ownership of patients' care while still in the learning environment throughout supervised autonomy. This is thought to help trainees learn more quickly due to increased responsibility for direct patient care. Hand surgery is no exception. The article demonstrates increased surgical competency tracked in a resident hand clinic.
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Why is it important?
Surgical education and patient care can meet in a constructive crossroads at resident clinics.
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Surgical education increasingly requires data to objectively understand what works and what doesn't. It's imperative that we work to augment what we know about improving surgical education with hard evidence, such as that which is often observed in resident clinics.
Dr Kristopher M Day
University of Texas at Austin
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This page is a summary of: Progressive Surgical Autonomy Observed in a Hand Surgery Resident Clinic Model, Journal of Surgical Education, March 2018, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsurg.2017.07.022.
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