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Piloting a National Curricular Resource for the Transition to Surgical Residency: Characteristics of Participating
Amy Jayas1, Ajit K Sachdeva2, Keith A Delman3
1Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, District of Columbia.
Objective:
To determine the extent to which U.S. Liaison Committee of Medical Education (LCME)-accredited medical schools chose to participate in piloting a national curricular resource, the American College of Surgeons/Association of Program Directors in Surgery/Association of Surgical Education Resident Prep Curriculum ("ACS-surgery-prep curriculum"), and implications of such participation for student access nationally to this resource.
Design:
We examined the significance of school-level differences in ACS-surgery-prep curriculum pilot participation and student-level differences in curriculum access based on medical school attended in bivariate analysis.
Setting:
U.S. medical schools choosing to participate in the ACS-surgery-prep curriculum through 2021. Students graduating from U.S. LCME-accredited medical schools in 2020-2021 were invited to complete the Association of American Medical Colleges 2021 Graduation Questionnaire (GQ).
Participants:
Our study included data for 2569 students intending surgery specialties (16% of 16,353 2021 GQ respondents) from ACS-surgery-prep curriculum pilot and non-pilot schools.
Results:
Of 148 medical schools attended by 2021 GQ respondents, 93 (63%) were identified as ACS-surgery-prep curriculum pilot schools. Pilot participation varied by school region, community-based designation, and research intensity (each p < 0.05) but not by ownership or transition to residency (TTR) course requirements (each p > 0.05). Of 2569 GQ respondents nationally intending surgery specialties, 1697 (66%) attended an ACS-surgery-prep curriculum pilot school; this proportion did not vary by gender or race/ethnicity (each p > 0.05) but varied by students' school TTR course requirements (p < 0.001). Findings were similar among the 1059 students intending general surgery specialties specifically (41% of all 2569 students intending surgery specialties).
Conclusions:
Many U.S. LCME-accredited medical schools piloted this national TTR surgery curriculum. School-level characteristics associated with pilot participation can inform outreach efforts to encourage the participation of interested schools in piloting this TTR resource. With this curriculum distribution model, we observed no gender or racial/ethnic disparities in curriculum access nationally among students intending surgery specialties.
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