A Binational Need Assessment to Define the Level of Endovascular Expertise Required by Vascular Surgical Trainees

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BACKGROUND: There has been a shift toward competency-based surgical education programs to improve trainee performance and achieve better patient outcomes. Endovascular procedures comprise a significant volume of vascular surgery, but the current methods for assessing the endovascular competence of vascular trainees in Australia and New Zealand are suboptimal. The objective of this study was to perform a need assessment to define the scope of endovascular expertise required by vascular surgical trainees to later aid in the development of novel surgical training assessment tools.

METHODS: A modified Delphi method was used to achieve expert consensus. Fifty-three key stakeholders in vascular surgical education and training (SET) in Australia and New Zealand were invited to take part in the 2-stage survey. Experts were asked which procedures they considered to be requisite for vascular surgery trainees and at which SET level competence should be achieved. The results were reiterated to the expert panel in the second stage, and consensus considered achieved if over 75% of experts were in agreement.

RESULTS: In the first stage 25 experts reached consensus that competence in 18 of the 26 procedures should be requisite for SET trainees. Twenty-two experts responded to the second stage and consensus was achieved for 12 out of 14 of the procedural items with mean percentage of experts in agreement being 90%.

CONCLUSIONS: A need assessment using a modified Delphi method has achieved consensus among experts in vascular surgery regarding the endovascular procedures considered to be requisite for vascular surgery trainees in Australia and New Zealand.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:76

Enthalten in:

Journal of surgical education - 76(2019), 4 vom: 01. Juli, Seite 982-989

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

McLachlan, Rohan H P [VerfasserIn]
Burgess, Annette [VerfasserIn]
Wagner, Timothy [VerfasserIn]
Freeman, Anthony J [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Competency-based education
Endovascular procedures
Journal Article
Medical Knowledge
Multicenter Study
Need assessment
Patient Care
Practice-Based Learning and Improvement
Surgical training
Systems-Based Practice
Vascular surgery

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 27.07.2020

Date Revised 27.07.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.jsurg.2019.01.006

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM293382395