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Abstract Title | Correlation between pre-training variables and performance during surgery residency training: Is surgical competence predictable?

Authors

  1. Susanna M. Lucieer
  2. Cornelis J. Hopmans
  3. Pieter T. den Hoed
  4. Reinier Timman
  5. Rosemarijn Steensma
  6. Remy M.J.P. Rikers
  7. Jan N.M. IJzermans
  8. Axel P.N. Themmen

Theme

10AA Surgery

INSTITUTION

iMERR, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Utrecht University, University College Roosevelt, Middelburg, the Netherlands

Summary of Work

Background

Selection of surgical residents is a high-stake process entailing the great responsibility to recruit candidates who will be successful during training and in future practice. However, information on pre-training variables that may affect performance during surgical residency training is limited.

Aim

This study aimed to identify pre-training variables associated with performance during surgical residency training by determining the relation between pre-training variables and indicators for success as reflected by scores for in-training exams and supervisor assessment scores.

Variables

Pre-training variables   Mean SD Range

Demographic data

 

Age

24 men/19 women

28.4

 

1.4

 

25-31

 

Secondary school

Biology

Chemistry

Mathematics

Physics

Dutch

English

7.04

6.98

7.13

6.96

7.12

6.91

.74

1.05

1.07

1.07

.73

.97

6.0-9.0

5.0-9.0

5.0-9.0

5.0-9.0

6.0-9.0

5.0-9.0

Medical school

Pre-clinical grade

Clerkship grade

Surgery clerkship

Graduation research

6.92

8.08

8.21

8.40

.44

.35

.41

.78

6.2-8.5

7.0-8.7

7.0-9.0

6.9-10.0

Academic credentials

Articles (median)

Presentations (median)

Completed PhD (nr and %)

8

8

15/35%

 

1-27

0-20

 

Clinical work experience in months   11.8 8.6

0-36

 

Outcome variables                              

     Mean   SD    Range 
 

In-training exams

Supervisor assessment scores

48

76

7.9

8.5

32-62

57-93

 

 

Background
Conclusion
Take-home Messages

 

 

Summary of Results

Relations between pre-training variables of 43 surgical residents and both in-training knowledge tests and supervisor assessments were analysed with regression analyses.

Thirty-five percent of the variance for the in-training exams (adjusted R= .352, = 5.944, p = .001) was explained by:

  • gender (B = -.364, p = .009)
  • secondary school graduation grade for chemistry (B = 2.655, p = .012)
  • work experience as physician not in training (B = -2.151p = .038).

Twenty-nine percent of the variance in supervisor assessment (adjusted R2 = .291, F = 9.638, p < .001) was explained by:

  • graduation grade for mathematics (B = 2.450, p = .019)
  • mean pre-clinical grade in medical school (B = 2.561, p = .014).

 

 

 

Take Home

Secondary school mathematics and chemistry grades and mean pre-clinical grade predict performance during surgical residency training and may be interesting variables to include in the selection process for future surgical residents.

 

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