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Evaluating the educational effectiveness of an 8-week patient management course for surgical interns: A nine-year
W Christian Crannell1, Camden Boes2, Karen Brasel1
1Oregon Health and Science University, Mail Code L223, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd, Portland, OR, 97239, USA.
Introduction:
Our general surgery program mandates an 8-week "intern school" (IS) for matriculating surgery interns. The course consists of a pre-test, didactics, and a post-test. We hypothesized IS exam performance would correlate with American Board of Surgery In Training Examination (ABSITE) scores.∖ METHODS: This was a retrospective analysis of IS pre- and post-tests and ABSITE scores for all OHSU surgery interns from 2010 to 2018. McNemar's, chi-square, and Pearson tests were calculated.
Results:
The pre and post-test pass rate for 293 interns was 26% vs. 86% (p < 0.001). Categorical interns were more likely to pass the pre-test (33% vs 11% p = 0.004), and the post-test (96% vs 83% p = 0.007) than non-designated interns and more likely to pass the post-test than designated preliminary intern (96% vs 80%, p = 0.0014). There was no correlation between IS exams and ABSITE performance.
Discussion:
IS improves exam performance, but IS test scores do not correlate with ABSITE scores, and the program is not a means to identify interns at risk of poor ABSITE performance.