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RAS-ACS Symposium: Pro: Competency-Based Training: Is There Any Other Way?
This ACS RAS Symposium second-place essay winner identifies the benefits of competency-based training.
RAS-ACS Symposium: Con: Competency-Based Training: A Gateway to Efficiency or a Sprint to the Finish Line?
This ACS RAS Symposium second-place essay winner outlines the challenges associated with competency-based training.
RAS-ACS Symposium: Competency-based training: A gateway to efficiency or a hurried sprint to the finish line
The benefits and challenges associated with competency-based training, which is the topic of the 2021 RAS Symposium, are summarized.
Should residents unionize? Hear the pros and cons at virtual Clinical Congress 2020 RAS-ACS Symposium
The initial paragraphs of the introductory essay on resident unionization, the focus of the annual RAS-ACS symposium, is featured.
RAS-ACS Symposium essays: Shift work surgery: Loss of continuity or sensible balance of responsibility?
The topic of this year’s ACS Resident and Associate Society Symposium is Shift Work Surgery: Loss of Continuity or Sensible Balance of Responsibility; the following are the second-place essays submitted, offering views from both sides of the debate.
Pro: Shift work surgery: Loss of continuity or sensible balance of responsibility?
This essay supports the perspective that shift work has been successfully implemented in other surgical specialties, including acute care and in hospitalist programs, and can help address the issues of burnout and work-life integration.
Con: Shift work surgery: Loss of continuity or sensible balance of responsibility?
This essay asserts that shift work disrupts the continuum of surgical patient care and interferes with residents’ full exposure to all phases of surgical care delivery.
Shift work surgery: Loss of continuity or sensible balance of responsibility?
The benefits associated with shift work, including improved job satisfaction and enhanced resident education opportunities, are described as are the challenges including the potential for diminished continuity of care.
RAS-ACS Symposium essays: Residents describe the benefits and challenges of physician extenders in academic surgery
The topic of this year’s Resident and Associate Society of the American College of Surgeons Symposium was Physician Extenders in Academic Surgery: Integrated Partner or Parallel Player? The following are the second place essays submitted featuring views from both sides of the debate.
NPPs: Exploring their contribution and impact on resident education
The role of physician extenders in resident education is explored.
Physician extenders: Integrated members of surgical teams
Summarizes the benefits of APPs including reducing resident workload and enhanced patient care.
RAS-ACS Symposium essays: Residents debate the future of leadership in surgery
The topic of this year’s Resident and Associate Society of the American College of Surgeons Symposium was Reframing Surgical Leadership in 2017: Surgeon-Scientist or Surgeon-Advocate? The following are the second place essays submitted on both sides of the debate.
Reframing surgical leadership in 2017: Surgeon-scientist or surgeon-advocate? Surgeon-scientist
The second-place essay for the Surgeon-Scientist. The topic of this year’s Resident and Associate Society Symposium was Reframing Surgical Leadership in 2017: Surgeon-Scientist or Surgeon-Advocate?
Reframing surgical leadership in 2017: Surgeon-scientist or surgeon-advocate? Surgeon-advocate
The second-place essay for the Surgeon-Advocate. The topic of this year’s Resident and Associate Society Symposium was Reframing Surgical Leadership in 2017: Surgeon-Scientist or Surgeon-Advocate?
RAS-ACS Symposium essays: Residents debate the boundaries of surgeon disclosure
The topic of this year’s Resident and Associate Society of the American College of Surgeons Symposium was Exploring the Limits of Surgeon Disclosure: Where Are the Boundaries? Read the first place essays submitted from both sides of the debate.
Exploring the limits of surgeon disclosure: Where are the boundaries? First-place essay—Pro
This essay supports a critical analysis of how to achieve true informed consent from surgical patients and the effects of surgeon disclosure.
Exploring the limits of surgeon disclosure: Where are the boundaries? First-place essay—Con
This essay suggests that without conclusive evidence to confirm outcomes, surgeon disclosure might pander to public fears rather than improve patient safety.
RAS-ACS Symposium essays—Social media: Threat to professionalism and privacy or essential for current surgical practice?
The topic of this year’s Resident and Associate Society of the American College of Surgeons Symposium was Social Media—Threat to Professionalism and Privacy or Essential for Current Surgical Practice. The following are the first and second place essays submitted from both sides of the debate.
First-place essay—Pro: Social media: An essential tool for the academic surgeon
This article discusses how social media, when used appropriately, is an essential tool for the academic surgeon.
First-place essay—Con: The writing is on the (Facebook) wall: The threat posed by social media
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.1 —Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Social media, the hallmark of Web 2.0, refers to virtual Internet communities where user-generated content (photos, videos, […]
