Assessing the Effort Associated with Teaching Residents

Intraoperative resident education is an integral mission of academic medical centers and serves as the basis for training the next generation of surgeons. The actual effort associated with teaching residents, as it pertains to additional operative time, is unknown. Using a large validated multi-institutional dataset, this study aims to quantify the effect on operative time of having a resident present in common plastic surgery procedures. Future directions for developing standardized methods to record and report teaching time are proposed, which can help inform prospective studies.

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