Clinical Challenges in Surgical Education: Supporting the Struggling Resident

The chief residents in your program are at their wits end with some of their colleagues. Residents are yelling at nurses, skin closures look like they’re from a horror movie and a patient almost died because of a delay in being seen. How can the chiefs and program director help these struggling residents?

Join Drs. Kyla Terhune, Jeremy Lipman, Judith French and Amy Han as they discuss how to identify and support the struggling surgical resident.

Learning objectives:

After listening to this episode, the participant will be able to:

Recall some of the assessment tools available to identify struggling residents

Discuss strategies for identifying struggling surgical residents

Provide guidance to a struggling surgical resident who is struggling