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This single-institution pilot study demonstrates that a brief, multi-source, competency-based evaluation system for surgical sub-interns achieves strong inter-rater reliability and feasibility with minimal evaluator burden, supporting its potential for high-stakes residency selection.
This study of medical students in a longitudinal integrated clerkship found that both a post-clerkship interest in a surgical career and a greater breadth of direct clinical exposure to surgical disease topics were significantly associated with higher self-reported comfort in foundational surgical skills.
A national survey reveals that preliminary general surgery residents experience significantly worse quality of life, mentorship, professional trajectory, and workplace mistreatment compared to their categorical counterparts, with these disparities persisting even after adjusting for demographic factors.
This study demonstrates that surgical residents who perceive high levels of faculty engagement in feedback report significantly more frequent feedback, greater exposure to Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs), and higher satisfaction with both feedback and EPAs compared to those with low perceived engagement, suggesting EPAs serve as an effective mechanism for enhancing faculty feedback.
This pilot study demonstrates that a theory-informed, paired preoperative forethought and postoperative reflection instrument for laparoscopic cholecystectomy is feasible, acceptable to residents, and can be integrated into routine surgical workflows without interfering with patient care, though modest completion rates highlight the need for further controlled research to evaluate its impact on learning and performance.
This prospective program evaluation demonstrates the feasibility of a four-level micro-credentialing pathway for thoracentesis and paracentesis training, reporting moderate uptake and successful retention among a first cohort while identifying the need for further evaluation of peer-assessor scalability and long-term impact.
A short, locally led, simulation-based curriculum delivered by in-country faculty in Ethiopia significantly improved laparoscopic knowledge and technical skills among surgeons and trainees, demonstrating that sustainable, locally owned training models can effectively expand minimally invasive surgery capacity in low-resource settings.
This study introduces an auditable, human-arbitrated dual-LLM workflow for methodological quality assessment in preclinical complex-intervention research, demonstrating that leveraging LLM disagreement as a signal for targeted human review effectively identifies systematic methodological weaknesses while ensuring transparency and accuracy.
This in vitro study demonstrates that zirconia-reinforced lithium disilicate exhibits superior translucency compared to super-high-translucent zirconia at both 0.9 mm and 1.3 mm thicknesses, despite both materials showing reduced translucency as thickness increases.
This retrospective study of 429 men with metastatic androgen pathway modulator-resistant prostate cancer treated with sipuleucel-T identifies *MYC* gain as the strongest independent genomic predictor of poor overall survival, alongside clinical factors such as extensive bone metastases, older age, and elevated alkaline phosphatase.