Ep. 103 Ok, dinosaur: Skeptical Scalpel on the State of Surgical Education

Our guest is the highly successful and widely respected blogger who writes anonymously under the pen name “Skeptical Scalpel.” He is a former Chairman of Surgery at an academic institution and we conversed about the state of surgical education and its present-day challenges. 

GUEST:

Twitter, blog, and author page at Physician’s Weekly

LINKS:

• Mass. General Hospital on the Hot Seat
• State rules surgeon whereabouts must be documented
• What were attrition rates in surgical residency programs 25 years ago?
• Problems with surgical residents and continuity of care
• Board passage rates and residency program quality
• Three more papers document the decline of resident education

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