BACKGROUND Clerkship performance is commonly evaluated by consultant surgeons who seldom supervise medical students directly. In contrast, surgical residents and interns frequently supervise students and provide essential teaching but are not tasked with evaluating them. AIM To prospectively investigate and compare the accuracy of general surgery clerkship performance evaluations by clinical ...

Perioperative risk of death after general surgery is quoted as overall less than 1%. However, each individual's risk varies widely according to many identified factors with some having a significantly increased risk of a worse outcome. The observation that manipulating and targeting certain physiological parameters in selected patients can influence this risk has been reported in numerous studi...

BACKGROUND The number of surgical residency applicants has been declining. Early introduction of the discipline of surgery is thought to stimulate early interest in surgical residency. This study investigated the hypothesis that a laparoscopic skills course introduced in preclinical years would stimulate student interest in entering surgical residency. METHODS Preclinical medical students par...

BACKGROUND Today's acute care surgery (ACS) service model requires multiple handovers to incoming attending surgeons and residents. Our objectives were to investigate current handover practices in Canadian hospitals that have an ACS service and assess the quality of handover practices in place. METHODS We administered an electronic survey among ACS residents in 6 Canadian general surgery prog...

HYPOTHESIS Surgery residents can learn continuous quality improvement (CQI) principles within a structured curriculum and propose quality improvement projects. DESIGN Curriculum within a surgical residency program. SETTING A university surgical residency program with multiple hospital training sites. PARTICIPANTS Fifteen surgical residents during the dedicated research year. INTERVENTIO...

A prospective study of unexpected, difficult laryngoscopy was carried out. During a 7-month period, all general surgery patients in whom the trachea was intubated were assessed; only those with obvious neck pathology were excluded. Ease or difficulty of laryngoscopy was graded by a standard method. There were no grade 4 cases and no failed intubations in a total of 1387 cases. There were signif...

Background: COVID-19 has remarkable impacts on all aspect of healthcare system. Many centres reported a decrease emergency cases, and most the elective cases is postponed. In this study we aimed to examine demographic data, clinical profiles, outcomes subjects infected with in General Surgery Department. Methods: Seventy patients were admitted Department confirmed-COVID-19 infection during May ...