Utilizing Surgical Bootcamps to Teach Core Entrustable Professional Activities to Senior Medical Students

Heimroth, Jamie; Jones, Victoria; Howard, Jeffrey D.; Sutton, Erica

doi:10.1177/000313481808400619

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“…1 Some of the design in these courses has been aimed at helping students achieve core skills or competencies as defined by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) or Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). 2,3 Many other specialties have begun to develop such prep courses as well, and students who have completed these courses recognize their benefit and feel all students should participate in such preparation. 4 The boot camps taught at different institutions vary in their duration, from one day to four weeks, but are similar in the areas of focus, including basic medical and technical knowledge needed for intern year.…”

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Residency Prep Course Instills Confidence in Interns

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Helmer

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Introduction. Physicians entering surgical residency often feel unprepared for tasks expected of them beginning July 1, including responding to pages, writing orders, doing procedures independently, and a multitude of other requirements. Our aim was to design a surgical boot camp to help graduating senior medical students feel more confident entering residency. Methods. A two-week intensive surgery residency prep course was conducted in the spring of 2019 at an Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education-accredited General Surgery residency program. The course was designed combining aspects from existing prep courses and innovative ideas tailored to resources available at our institution. Medical students participated in the Surgery Residency Prep Course as an elective at the end of their fourth year of medical school. An anonymous survey was given pre- and post-prep course completion evaluating confidence in medical knowledge, clinical skills, and surgical skills. Data were compared using Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test. Results. Six students completed the course as a medical elective. Students felt more confident at course completion in most aspects, were significantly more confident in all areas of surgical skills taught and evaluated, and nearly all areas of medical knowledge. Subjectively, students felt as though the course was beneficial and helped them feel more prepared for starting internship. Conclusions. This course designed at our institution was successful in helping prepare and instill confidence in graduating medical students prior to starting their internship.

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Residency Prep Course Instills Confidence in Interns

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“…During the past decade, there has been a surge of residency readiness programs implemented as part of the fourth-year medical school curriculum or as part of the transition to residency. 8 While the type and quality of these programs have substantial variability, drawing mixed results on their utility, 28–30 there is some evidence from the current study that residents who attended prior readiness programs were less likely to select potentially harmful actions (3% lower than residents who did not attend prior readiness programs); however, the overall rate of harmful decisions remained high (15% overall). While current results are useful in pinpointing shortcomings, additional research is needed to fully identify specific relationships between the curricular content and experiences of bootcamps that facilitate the clinical decision-making skills of entering residents.…”

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The American College of Surgeons Entering Resident Readiness Assessment (ACS ERRA)

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Objective: To gather validity evidence supporting the use and interpretation of scores from the American College of Surgeons Entering Resident Readiness Assessment (ACS ERRA) Program. Summary and Background Data: ACS ERRA is an online formative assessment program developed to assess entering surgery residents’ ability to make critical clinical decisions, and includes 12 clinical areas and 20 topics identified by a national panel of surgeon educators and residency program directors. Methods: Data from 3 national testing administrations of ACS ERRA (2018–2020) were used to gather validity evidence regarding content, response process, internal structure (reliability), relations to other variables, and consequences. Results: Over the 3 administrations, 1975 surgery residents participated from 125 distinct residency programs. Overall scores [Mean = 64% (SD = 7%)] remained consistent across the 3 years (P = 0.670). There were no significant differences among resident characteristics (gender, age, international medical graduate status). The mean case discrimination index was 0.54 [SD = 0.15]. Kappa inter-rater reliability for scoring was 0.87; the overall test score reliability (G-coefficient) was 0.86 (Ф-coefficient = 0.83). Residents who completed residency readiness programs had higher ACS ERRA scores (66% versus 63%, Cohen’s d = 0.23, P < 0.001). On average, 15% of decisions made (21/140 per test) involved potentially harmful actions. Variability in scores from graduating medical schools (7%) carried over twice as much weight than from matched residency programs (3%). Conclusions: ACS ERRA scores provide valuable information to entering surgery residents and surgery program directors to aid in development of individual and group learning plans.

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“…Several lines of evidence have suggested that boot camps represent an effective and useful means of teaching [ 26 , 27 ]. Despite knowledge of this success, few studies have investigated the usefulness of delivering exercise education via boot camps for individuals with PD.…”

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A Novel Boot Camp Program to Help Guide Personalized Exercise in People with Parkinson Disease

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Dean

Cruickshank

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Given the variety of exercise programs available for people with Parkinson’s disease (PD), such individuals may struggle to make decisions about what exercise to perform. The objective of this study was to assess the usefulness, satisfaction, and preferences regarding participation in a PD-personalized educational and exercise boot camp program. Attendees participated in a four-day program consisting of exercise sessions, workshops, and social activities. We collected demographic and clinical information. We assessed satisfaction and preferences immediately after. At one-month follow-up, participants assessed usefulness and changes in exercise habits. Eight individuals diagnosed with PD, with a mean age of 59.5 ± 6.8 years, participated. All participants felt “very satisfied” and likely to attend future events. The two favorite sessions were: cognitive stepping and dance-based movements. At one-month follow-up, participants considered the program “very useful” and reported changes in their exercise routine. Our results suggest that the boot camp program was considered useful and capable of influencing participants’ exercise habits.

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Utilizing Surgical Bootcamps to Teach Core Entrustable Professional Activities to Senior Medical Students

Cited by 7 publications

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Residency Prep Course Instills Confidence in Interns

Residency Prep Course Instills Confidence in Interns

The American College of Surgeons Entering Resident Readiness Assessment (ACS ERRA)

A Novel Boot Camp Program to Help Guide Personalized Exercise in People with Parkinson Disease

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