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Efficacy of Residency Training Pathways: The Young Plastic Surgeons National Survey

C. Scott Hultman, MD; Adam Lowenstein, Rebecca Glasser, Stephanie Rowen, Garrett Wirth

Purpose: Plastic surgery training currently includes three different pathways to board certification (independent, coordinated, and integrated models), but the efficacy of each model has not been completely studied. Given the changing environment of prerequisite training (the 80-hour work week, decreasing operative time, and fragmentation of general surgery) and increasing competition from other surgical and medical specialties, the current academic model of plastic surgery training is threatened and will need to evolve.1,2 Furthermore, the American Board of Surgery is actively developing a truncated, three-year core curriculum in surgery, in which post-graduate surgical education is re-organized to serve as a portal for residents who wish to pursue a subspecialty.3 The purpose of this study is to gain the perspective of young, board-certified plastic surgeons, regarding their experience in the transition from residency to practice, and to determine the efficacy of different training models, in terms of preparedness for practice.

Methods: We administered a national, web-based questionnaire () to all “young” (age ................
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