Registry-Based Trainee Assessments: Leveraging a Quality Collaborative for Surgical Education

Area of Science:

• Medical Education
• Surgical Quality Improvement
• Health Informatics

Background:

• Integrating resident feedback into existing surgical quality registries is crucial for enhancing surgical training.
• Developing effective modules for capturing operative data is essential for performance assessment.

Purpose of the Study:

• To describe the development and implementation of a registry-based module for capturing resident operative feedback.
• To assess faculty engagement with the new surgical education module during its initial year.

Main Methods:

• A surgical education module was embedded within an institutional quality collaborative registry.
• Operative data and resident assessments were captured via the module from February 2019 to February 2020.
• Faculty engagement rates and the number of assessments per resident were analyzed.

Main Results:

• 85% (1074 of 1269) of operative assessments were completed by 27 faculty members.
• The median faculty engagement rate was 91% for resident-assisted procedures.
• Residents received a median of 7 operative assessments during the study period.

Conclusions:

• Embedding a surgical education module into a quality registry facilitates routine capture of procedure-specific operative assessments.
• This approach offers a scalable method for collecting valuable feedback in surgical residency programs.
• The high completion rate indicates successful integration and faculty acceptance of the module.