Resident selection protocols in plastic surgery: A national survey of plastic surgery independent program directors

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 459-469

  Nguyen, Alexander T ^a,b,c   Janis, Jeffrey E ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EDUCATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LICENSING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PLASTIC SURGERY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LICENSURE, MEDICAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; SURGERY, PLASTIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865040341     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e318258d4dd     Document Type: Review

References (26)

1. Janis JE, Hatef DA. Resident selection protocols in plastic surgery: A national survey of plastic surgery program direc-tors. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2008;122:1929-1939; discussion 1940-1941.
2. Wilcoxin F. Individual comparisons by ranking methods. Biometrics Bull. 1945;1:80-83.
3. San Francisco Matching Programs. Available at: http:// www.sfmatch.org. Accessed January 2, 2011.
4. Everett CB, Helmer SD, Osland JS, Smith RS. General surgery resident attrition and the 80-hourworkweek. Am J Surg. 2007; 194:751-756; discussion 756-757.
5. Naylor RA, Reisch JS, Valentine RJ. Factors related to attri-tion in surgery residency based on application data. Arch Surg. 2008;143:647-651; discussion 651-652.
6. Rohrich RJ,Johns DF, Beran SJ. Graduate medical education in plastic surgery: A time for revolution. Plast Reconstr Surg. 1997;100:1333-1335.
7. Luce EA. A survival plan. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2001;108:776-782.
8. Chase RA. I'm against a rigid core curriculum prior to spe-cialty trainingin plastic surgery. Plast Reconstr Surg. 1970;46: 384-388.
9. Luce EA. General surgery, the general surgical subspecial-ties, and prerequisite training. Arch Surg. 1993;128:134-137.
10. Bell RH Jr. Graduate education in general surgery and its related specialties and subspecialties in the United States. World J Surg. 2008;32:2178-2184.
11. Ferguson CM. The arguments against fellowship training and early specialization in general surgery. Arch Surg. 2003; 138:915-916.
12. Berner ES, Brooks CM, Erdmann JB. Use of the USMLE to select residents. Acad Med. 1993;68:753-759.
13. Miller AT, Swain GW,Widmar M, Divino CM. Howimportant are American Board of Surgery In-Training Examination scores when applying for fellowships?J Surg Educ. 2010;67: 149-151.
14. de Virgilio C, Yaghoubian A, Kaji A, et al. Predicting per-formance on the American Board of Surgery qualifying and certifying examinations: A multi-institutional study. Arch Surg. 2010;145:852-856.
15. Umansky J, Taub P, Lorenz HP, Kawamoto HK. Factors de-termining the ultimate fate of a plastic surgery applicant. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2003;111:981-984; discussion 985-986.
16. Grewal NS, Spoon DB, Kawamoto HK, et al. Predictive factors in identifying subspecialty fellowship applicants who will have academic practices. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2008;122:1264- 1271; discussion 1272-1273.
17. Mc Carthy JG. The postresidency fellowship in plastic surgery: Its evolution and future. Plast Reconstr Surg. 1985;76:790-793.
18. Mooney K, Bergheim L. The Ten Demandments: Rules to Live by in the Age of the Demanding Consumer. New York: Mc Graw-Hill; 2002.
19. Rogers CR Gutowski KA, Munoz-Del Rio A, et al. Integrated plastic surgery residency applicant survey: Characteristics of successful applicants and feedback about the interview pro-cess. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2009;123:1607-1617.
20. Brothers TE, Wetherholt S. Importance of the faculty inter-view during the resident application process. J Surg Educ. 2007;64:378-385.
21. Zook EG Resident selection. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2006;118: 1268-1269.
22. Evans GR. Selecting plastic surgery residents: One picture is worth a thousand words. Aesthet Surg J. 2010;30:267-268.
23. Bath J, Lawrence P. Issues and politics related to vascular education in the United States. Acta Chir Belg. 2010;110:413-416.
24. Perler BA. Presidential Address. When I grow up, I want to be successful like daddy: Ijust don'twant to be a doctor.J Vasc Surg. 2007;45:627-634.
25. Vick LR Borman KR. Instability of fellowship intentions during general surgery residencies. J Surg Educ. 2008;65:445-452.
26. Yeo H, Bucholz E, Ann Sosa J, et al. A national study of attrition in general surgery training: Which residents leave and where do they go? Ann Surg. 2010;252:529-534; discus-sion 534-536.