Current surgery
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An excellent teaching program is one that creates an atmosphere of mentorship, leadership, and professional development. The key to all of these may lie in the faculty evaluation. Currently, favorable faculty evaluations are often rewarded, whereas the more critical evaluations are downplayed and seldom used for faculty development. The purpose of this study is to investigate the efficacy of the faculty evaluation as a diagnostic tool to objectively identify individual strengths and weaknesses. Can such a tool then be used as a therapeutic modality to improve and enhance the faculty as a whole? ⋯ (1) Faculty evaluations are a diagnostic tool with the ability to select out Role Models from the lower scoring groups. (2) After the intervention, the overall average score improved for all of the 9 criteria that make a Role Model, showing improvement of the faculty as a whole. (3) The therapeutic benefits of faculty evaluations were best seen in the faculty with the lowest scores.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
Fluid administration during abdominal surgery influences on coagulation in the postoperative period.
Postoperative coagulopathy is an important concern for patients after major surgery. Our objective was to define the factors that correlate with postoperative deterioration in coagulation. ⋯ Administration of more than 3-l crystalloids or 500-ml colloids during abdominal surgery correlates with postoperative coagulopathy.