Feedback Agreement• Agree on goals before the clinical encounter."What would you like feedback on?" Ask• Ask for learnear's self-assessment. "How do you think that went?" Tell• Address learner's concerns.• Share observations and ≥ 1 thing the learner did effectively. Feedback ModelsWilliam Liakos, MD, resident physician, Mountain Area Health Education Center; Trey Keel, third-year medical student, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell; R. Ellen Pearlman, MD, associate dean, professionalism and doctoring skills, Donald and

Learning how to provide nutritional counseling to patients should start early in undergraduate medical education to improve the knowledge, comfort, and confidence of physicians. Two nutrition workshops were developed for first-year medical students. The first workshop, co-led by physicians and registered dieticians, focused on obtaining nutrition assessments. The second workshop focused on the appropriate dietary counseling of patients with chronic kidney disease and cardiovascular risk. We surveyed students before workshop 1, after workshop 1, and after workshop 2 to assess their perceptions of the value of physician nutrition knowledge and counseling skills as well as their own comfort in the area of nutritional knowledge, assessment, and counseling. We found a significant improvement in their self-assessed level of knowledge regarding counseling patients, in their comfort in completing a nutritional assessment, and in their confidence in advising a patient about nutrition by the end of the first workshop. By the time of the second workshop five months later, students continued to report a high level of knowledge, comfort, and confidence. The implementation of clinical nutrition workshops with a focus on assessment, management, and counseling was found to be effective in increasing student’s self-assessed level of knowledge as well as their confidence and comfort in advising patients on nutrition. Our findings further support the previous assertion that clinical nutrition education can be successfully integrated into the pre-clerkship medical school curriculum.

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Objectives: At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the US Surgeon General ordered the cessation of all elective surgical procedures. We evaluated the mental health impact of COVID-19 related surgical delay on patients awaiting procedures for benign, pre-malignant and malignant conditions. We sought to understand the short term impact of surgical delay and to identify potential longer term mental health affects after completion of the delayed procedure. Methods: All patients over age 18 awaiting surgery for benign, pre-malignant or malignant conditions in the gynecologic oncology, surgical oncology and colorectal services at Northwell Health were eligible. Upon enrollment, participants completed a baseline survey consisting of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Questionnaire (GAD-7), the Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ), and Brief-Illness Patient Questionnaire (B-IPQ). Six weeks after their surgery, participants were sent a second survey consisting of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CES-D) scale in addition to the GAD-7, PSWQ, and B-IPQ. Results: 56 patients underwent their procedure and completed the follow-up survey. Patients with suspected benign conditions had a longer delay in scheduling their surgery than patients with suspected/confirmed cancer or pre-malignant conditions (101.4d vs 66.3d, p<0.05). There was no correlation of length of delay with postoperative worry, anxiety, or depression scores. There was no decrease in level of worry, as delineated by the PSWQ, among gynecologic oncology patients when comparing pre-operative to post-operative data. However, surgical oncology and colorectal patients demonstrated decreased post-operative worry. There was no difference in anxiety by surgical specialty.While the surgical delay was ongoing 79% of patients considered it to be moderately to extremely concerning, with 46% indicating the highest possible level of concern. Post-operatively, 47% of the respondents indicated moderate to extreme concern about the surgical delay, while 37% were not concerned. Initially, the surgical delay was considered to have a moderate to severe impact upon daily life by 65% of patients; which decreased to 53% at the time of post-operative follow-up. Interestingly, these relative decreases in patient concern were not significant when comparing pre-operative to post-operative values as a whole, by diagnosis or by specialty. 20% of participants qualified as depressed based on their response to the CES-D. Of these patients, 70% had a post-operatively confirmed cancer or pre-cancer. The incidence of depression was not affected by the post-operative diagnosis. Conclusions: Many patients experienced distress surrounding surgical delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This extended to their postoperative period. Gynecologic oncology patients did not experience decreased post-operative worry, while surgical oncology and colorectal patients did. There was no significant...