Association of Time to Attrition in Surgical Residency With Individual Resident and Programmatic Factors
Author(s) -
Heather Yeo,
Jonathan S. Abelson,
Matthew Symer,
Jialin Mao,
Fabrizio Michelassi,
Richard Bell,
Art Sedrakyan,
Julie Ann Sosa
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
jama surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.757
H-Index - 176
eISSN - 2168-6262
pISSN - 2168-6254
DOI - 10.1001/jamasurg.2017.6202
Subject(s) - attrition , medicine , cohort , family medicine , demography , gerontology , dentistry , sociology
Attrition in general surgery residency remains high, and attrition that occurs in the later years is the most worrisome. Although several studies have retrospectively investigated the timing of attrition, no study to date has prospectively evaluated a national cohort of residents to understand which residents are at risk for attrition and at what point during residency.
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