ALLIANCE FOR CLINICAL EDUCATION (ACE) ABSTRACTS: Abstracts From the Proceedings of the 2005 Annual Meetings of the Association for Surgical Education (ASE)

Abstract

A total of 37 abstracts were accepted for presentation at the 25th Annual Meeting of the Association for Surgical Education, held in New York City, NY. Of those, 11 were chosen for publication in these proceedings based on common themes; work hours and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education competencies impacted heavily on the themes pursued this year. s explored how faculty and residents view the duty hour restrictions, whether the restrictions have created an ethical dilemma for residents, the communication factors that affect shared understanding of the hospitalized patients, and the identification of key surgical stressors and their impact on practice and coping strategies.s also assessed the impact of the 80-hr work week on education. Two abstracts focused on medical students. One correlated work hours with sleep and objective measures of performance, whereas a second proposed to determine the proportion of night and weekend call spent in educational pursuits. Both attempted to assess self-report activities by medical students. Four abstracts addressed changes in teaching methodologies reporting on the development of a new time-protected, didactic resident teaching curriculum; the use of virtual patients to teach communication skills; and the integration of a curriculum for informed consent with that for teaching bedside procedural activities using cognitive task analysis. Finally, Xeroulis and coauthors demonstrated that computer-based video instructions are as effective as summary feedback from experts in teaching suturing and knot-tying skills.