Impact of a resident's sex on intraoperative entrustment of surgery trainees

Optimizing intraoperative education is critical for development of autonomous residents. Faculty decisions concerning intraoperative entrustment determine the degree to which a resident gains intraoperative responsibility. Accordingly, residents exhibit entrustable behaviors that further faculty entrustment in the operating room. Little empiric evidence exists evaluating how the sex of a resident influences faculty-resident decisions of entrustment. Studies involving perception-based measurements of autonomy report inequities for women residents.

Source: Surgery - July 3, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Julie Thompson-Burdine, Danielle C. Sutzko, Vahagn C. Nikolian, Anna Boniakowski, Patrick E. Georgoff, Kaustubh A. Prabhu, Niki Matusko, Rebecca M. Minter, Gurjit Sandhu Source Type: research