OBJECTIVE Given widespread disparities in the surgical workforce and the advent of
competency-based training models that rely on objective evaluations of resident …

Importance Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) compose a competency-based
education (CBE) assessment framework that has been increasingly adopted across medical …

Objective: To examine differences in resident operative experience between male and
female general surgery residents. Background: Despite increasing female representation in …

Introduction Gender disparities in resident operative experience have been described;
however, their etiology is poorly understood, and racial/ethnic disparities have not been …

Introduction Technical learning in surgical training is multifaceted and existing literature
suggests a positive relationship between case volume and proficiency. Little is known about …

Background It remains unclear why female general surgery residents perform fewer cases
than male peers. This exploratory study investigated possible contributors to gender-based …

Purpose Supervisors may be prone to implicit (unintentional) bias when granting procedural
autonomy to trainees due to the subjectivity of autonomy decisions. The authors aimed to …

Abstract Purpose of Review Across surgical specialties, residencies are incentivized to
improve program diversity, most often through recruitment of underrepresented minority …

Aims Global literature suggests that female surgical trainees have lower rates of
independent operating (operative autonomy) than their male counterparts. The objective of …

Introduction Solving disparities in assessments is crucial to a successful surgical training
programme. The first step in levelling these inequalities is recognising in what contexts they …