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Editorial Board
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Contents
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| 2006 APDS Spring Meeting |
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Presidential Address
Before I begin, I would like to thank John Potts sincerely for that interesting introduction. But, more importantly, I thank all of the people that have helped me during my career. I would not be a su...
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Joseph B. Cofer
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361-366
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Does Academic Intervention Impact ABS Qualifying Examination Results?
Objectives: To assess the impact of a focused academic support program on American Board of Surgery In-Training Examination (ABSITE) scores and Qualifying Examination (QE) outcomes. Methods: A mandato...
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Karen R. Borman
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367-372
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Forty Years in the Saddle: Lessons Learned as Program Director in One Program for Forty Years
About 100 years ago, the well-known saying “If you don’t know history, you are doomed to repeat it” was coined by George Santayana (1863-1952), Spanish-born American philosopher and poet. Also attribu...
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Allen Silbergleit
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373-384
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General Surgery Morning Report: A Competency-Based Conference that Enhances Patient Care and Resident Education
Purpose: After adopting a night float system, the residency program at the University of Virginia Health System Department of Surgery initiated a daily morning report (MR). The conference was originat...
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Brendon M. Stiles,
T. Brett Reece,
Traci L. Hedrick,
Robert A. Garwood,
Michael G. Hughes,
Joseph J. Dubose,
Reid B. Adams,
Bruce D. Schirmer,
Hilary A. Sanfey,
Robert G. Sawyer
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385-390
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Is it Appropriate to Use Core Clerkship Grades in the Selection of Residents?
Objective: This study challenges the appropriateness of using core clerkship grades for resident selection. The authors hypothesize that substantial variability occurred in the system of grading. Desi...
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Hiroo Takayama,
Rebecca Grinsell,
Douglas Brock,
Hugh Foy,
Carlos Pellegrini,
Karen Horvath
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391-396
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Medical Student Entry into General Surgery Increases with Early Exposure to Surgery and to Surgeons
Nationally, student interest in pursuit of a general surgery residency steadily dropped from the early 1980s through the first part of this decade. General surgery was the first-choice residency for 1...
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John C. Kirkham,
Warren D. Widmann,
Doris Leddy,
Michael J. Goldstein,
Benjamin Samstein,
Mahmoud El-Tamer,
Avital Harari,
Tracey D. Arnell,
Rena John,
Mark A. Hardy
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397-400
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Missed Opportunities: A Descriptive Assessment of Teaching and Attitudes Regarding Communication Skills in a Surgical Residency
Background: The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) requires that “residents must be able to demonstrate interpersonal and communication skills that result in effective inform...
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Olivia A. Hutul,
Robert O. Carpenter,
John L. Tarpley,
Kimberly D. Lomis
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401-409
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A PGY1 Curriculum—Meeting a Need for Changing Times
A systematic process is described that produced a PGY1 curriculum for the surgical residents at Medical College of Wisconsin. The process involved faculty and residents. Topics were selected based on ...
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John A. Weigelt,
Deborah E. Simpson,
Rebecca C. Anderson,
Karen J. Brasel,
Philip N. Redlich
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410-417
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Patterns and Predictions of Resident Misbehavior—A 10-Year Retrospective Look
Background: Surgical educators are charged with ensuring that their trainees conduct themselves in a professional manner. The authors retrospectively reviewed a 10-year experience of incident reports ...
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Andrew S. Resnick,
James L. Mullen,
Larry R. Kaiser,
Jon B. Morris
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418-425
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Stimulating Resident Research in a General Surgery Residency Community Program
Objective: Resident research teams were established at this community hospital in the 1997 academic year. Research productivity, including publications and presentations in the years before establishi...
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Joann Lohr,
J. Michael Smith,
Richard Welling,
Amy Engel,
Kim Hasselfeld,
Joy Rusche
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426-434
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The 80-Hour Resident Workweek Does Not Adversely Affect Patient Outcomes or Resident Education
Purpose: To determine whether the 80-hour resident workweek adversely affects patient outcomes or resident education. Methods: To assess patient outcomes, the authors reviewed trauma patient morbidity...
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Christian de Virgilio,
Arezou Yaghoubian,
Roger J. Lewis,
Bruce E. Stabile,
Brant A. Putnam
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435-439
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“What’s So Special about an 80-Hour Work Week?”
de Virgilio and his colleagues from Harbor-UCLA Medical Center offer evidence that the impact of current duty hour restrictions is overall positive. Operative cases increased, ABSITE scores were uncha...
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Richard M. Bell
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The Electronic Journal Club: An Asynchronous Problem-Based Learning Technique Within Work-Hour Constraints
Journal clubs are a frequent component of a surgery residency’s educational compendium. A survey of 278 members of the Association of Program Directors in Surgery, with an 81% response rate, published...
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Jeffrey Hammond,
Thomas Whalen
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441-443
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The Surgical Learning and Instructional Portfolio (SLIP) as a Self-Assessment Educational Tool Demonstrating Practice-Based Learning
Purpose: Time constraints on the teaching and evaluation of residents continue to alter the way in which medical knowledge must be imparted and assessed. Lifelong learning is a component of the practi...
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Travis P. Webb,
Charles Aprahamian,
John A. Weigelt,
Karen J. Brasel
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444-447
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Work Hours Restrictions as an Ethical Dilemma for Residents: A Descriptive Survey of Violation Types and Frequency
Background: The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) implemented requirements regarding allowable duty hours for resident training in the United States in July 2003. In a previ...
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Robert O. Carpenter,
John Spooner,
Patrick G. Arbogast,
John L. Tarpley,
Marie R. Griffin,
Kimberly D. Lomis
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448-455
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Book review
Genomic Medicine is a text that explores the expansive topic of genomics and how it relates to clinical practice. It is a collection of key articles that were initially published in the New England Jo...
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Daniel R. Baillie
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Book review
As a practicing adult cardiothoracic surgeon with over 25 years of experience in the operating room, I was eager to delve into this textbook of surgical anatomy. The stated goal of the authors is to m...
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Terrill E. Theman
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456-457
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| Original Reports |
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Electrosurgery
Electrosurgical units (ESUs) are the most common piece of electrical equipment in the operating room. The constant presence of the ESU in the operating room increases the potential for patient injury....
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Christopher M. Jones,
Ketsia B. Pierre,
Ian B. Nicoud,
Steven C. Stain,
Willie V. Melvin
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458-463
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When Should We Order a CT Scan and When Should We Rely on the Results to Diagnose an Acute Appendicitis?
Objective: The objective of this study was to retrospectively analyze the last 100 consecutive emergency appendectomies performed in the authors’ institution, which is a community-based teaching hospi...
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Adil Ceydeli,
Simon Lavotshkin,
Jack Yu,
Leslie Wise
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464-468
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| Case Reports |
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Solid-Pseudopapillary Tumors of the Pancreas: Case Report and Literature Review
Solid pseudopapillary tumors (SPT) of the pancreas are rare neoplasms of low malignant potential that mostly affect young women. These tumors are of unclear pathogenesis, are slow growing, and can bec...
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Wesley P. Francis,
Etai Goldenberg,
N. Volkan Adsay,
Christopher P. Steffes,
John D. Webber
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469-472
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| Program Coordinator's Corner |
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General Surgery Resident Applicants Perception of Program Coordinators
Applicants to general surgery residency programs have different perceptions regarding program coordinators and their role in the recruitment process. Although some applicants may know the surgery depa...
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Ruth Nawotniak,
Ellie Gray
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473-475
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| History |
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The Legacy of Sir Henry Souttar: Pioneer of the First Mitral Valvulotomy
Sir Henry Souttar () was a versatile and daring British surgeon who made numerous surgical contributions. His distinguished career would have been legendary even if he had not performed one of the mos...
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George M. Comas,
Warren D. Widmann,
Mark A. Hardy
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476-481
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| Reflections |
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Deck of Cards
“Wanna watch me shuffle?”
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Riley Bove
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| Author and Subject Index for Volume 63, 2006 |
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Author index
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483-484
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Subject index
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485-489
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