OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To determine the effect of otolaryngology trainee participation on clinical outcomes in patients who undergo endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) for chronic rhinosinusitis. STUDY DESIGN Secondary analysis of prospectively collected data. METHODS Patients enrolled in a sinus surgery outcomes study between May 2011 and March 2013 were stratified into two groups--those who wer...

OBJECTIVE We examined our coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) experience to assess the effect of training on mortality and morbidity outcomes. METHODS Between April 1997 and September 2002, 5678 consecutive patients underwent isolated CABG. Five hundred and fifty-five (9.9%) were performed by trainee surgeons. Multivariate logistic regression was used to assess the effect of training on adv...

Introduction While mammography notably contributes to earlier detection of breast cancer, it has its limitations including a large number of false positive exams. Improved radiology education could potentially contribute to alleviating this issue. Toward this goal, in this paper we propose an algorithm for modeling of false positive error making among radiology trainees. Identifying troublesome...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Complications during advanced diagnostic bronchoscopy are rare and include: pneumothorax, bleeding, mediastinitis and lymphadenitis. Increased complications have been demonstrated in patients undergoing routine bronchoscopy procedures performed by trainees. This study aimed to determine the impact of trainees during advanced diagnostic bronchoscopy on procedure time, se...

PURPOSE There is no rigorous exploration of how the different titles used by medical trainees in medical school affect patients' perceptions of trainees. This study has two aims: (1) to understand the effects of medical trainee title on subjects' perceptions, and (2) to understand the effects of informing subjects about the medical education system on comfort with trainees. METHODS A survey w...

BACKGROUND Endoscopy is performed for direct inspection of the mucosa and acquisition of biopsies in dogs with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). AIM To evaluate the interobserver agreement in the endoscopic assessment of duodenal mucosa in dogs with IBD. METHODS Thirty-five archived endoscopic images of grossly normal (n = 6) and inflamed (n = 29) duodenal mucosa were displayed to 3 expert ...

A total of 483 hips treated by primary total hip arthroplasty (THA) were investigated to evaluate the surgical skill of the performing surgeon. Surgical trainees operated on 259 hips and instructors on 224 hips. The average age of the patients at the time of THA in the trainee and instructor group was 61.9 and 60.8 years old, respectively. The average follow-up duration was 5.1 years. The opera...

BACKGROUND Few studies have addressed the effect of "trainee surgeon" status on outcomes after isolated aortic valve replacement (AVR). METHODS AND RESULTS A retrospective analysis of data, collected by the Australasian Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons Cardiac Surgery Database Program between June 2001 and December 2009 was performed. Patient demographics, intra-operative characterist...

Recently, the number of studies on virtual environments for supporting sport skill learning has been growing. Most of the studies have focused on improving the quality of the environment created by virtual reality technology. In contrast, this study focused on the visual feedback of trainees’ performances. When a trainee moves within a virtual environment shown on a display device, the trainee ...