Steven Char

Last year, we took stock of resident confidence and competence with surgical ethics topics at our program, and designed a longitudinal curriculum to address those needs. Here’s what we found: cc: @MSHSSurgery (1/9)

If you’re interested in learning more, or in building a similar curriculum at your program, DM me!! Thanks to @JSE for sharing our work. Full paper here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… (9/end)

Residents at our program found the curriculum relevant, efficient, and useful, and it demonstrably increased resident confidence in 10/10 of the surgical ethics domains covered! (8/9)

Last year, we took stock of resident confidence and competence with surgical ethics topics at our program, and designed a longitudinal curriculum to address those needs. Here’s what we found: cc: @MSHSSurgery (1/9)

The findings of this study may serve as a useful starting point for the development of a dedicated surgical ethics curriculum aimed at better equipping surgeons to navigate the dilemmas they are likely to face in practice. Read more at: journals.lww.com/journalacs/ful…

@snakagawa_md Thank you, Dr Nakagawa!

"I might be doing something that's just going to extend someone's suffering and not alleviate their suffering." Splendid paper about surgeons' ethical dilemma. @ColumbiaSurgery, @columbia_ccme @StevenChar23 @jacs journals.lww.com/journalacs/Abs…

It’s our hope that our findings may help as a useful starting point in designing such a curriculum 📚. Many thanks to the @ColumbiaSurgery surgeons who took the time to discuss some very challenging topics with us, and to @acsJACS for sharing our work (end)

Overall there was strong support for a dedicated, surgery specific ethics curriculum—by surgeons, for surgeons—involving a blend of lectures 📖 and sim 🔪, to help better equip surgeons to navigate the ethical challenges unique to our field. (7/8)

We asked 30 attending surgeons about the common ethical dilemmas they encounter in their day-to-day practice, and how well equipped they feel to face them. Here’s what they said, and more on why we asked: cc: @columbia_ccme @ColumbiaSurgery (1/8)

Excited to share the results of my @ColumbiaPS scholarly project on surgical ethics + a new surg ethics curriculum at #ACSCC23 in October! See you in Boston! @ColumbiaSurgery @columbia_ccme