Hirose-Gram
Dear Surgical Residents,
Greetings for the month of July! Hope you have all hit the ground running on your respective first rotations of the academic year. No matter how long you have been in residency, there is always some adjustment to your new role(s) at the beginning of the year. In a way, residency is often about learning how to do a new job every year: your responsibilities change; expectations are different; your perspective on work and life evolve. There is always some amount of discomfort, but I would encourage you to embrace working just at (or slightly beyond) the edge of your comfort level. This applies not just during training, but during the rest of your career as well.
A few notes from the program:
Departmental M+M:
Next Departmental M+M is Wed July 10, 2024
As many of you noted last week, we have started a revised departmental M+M format. We wanted to make the cases more timely, more focused on educational points with less PowerPoint and more discussion (particularly among faculty). For M+M only (not Grand Rounds), all attendees must either come in person to Parnassus or the designated room at the respective clinical sites—SFVAMC, SFGH, and Mission Bay (we are working on CPMC and Kaiser). Food will be available at each site. When you are asked to present, we want the presentations short and to the point. We hope this will be the most educational format for everyone involved.
Town Hall 7/17/24
The following week we will be having our first general surgery residency town hall. This will be held in-person only at Parnassus. We will start with 15 minutes of discussion/presentation by program faculty leadership, and for the rest of the time, the administrative chiefs will hold an open discussion with residents only. Please make every effort to attend.
Feedback to the program
As we move forward during the academic year, there are sure to be issues (large and small) that come up on your rotations. We want to make sure that all residents are aware of ways to communicate concerns or issues with the program. These issues can be brought up anonymously if preferred, although this makes it difficult to "close the loop" with the person that brought up the concern. Here are some of the ways in which issues can be brought up:
Case log guide
Just a reminder to everyone to keep your case logs up to date! This is very important for your progression through the program and ultimately, board certification. Please click here for a slide deck about some pointers about case logs. If you have 20 minutes, feel free to watch this video that I recorded earlier about case logging.
Just a few more notes about case logging:
- Surgeon Chief (SC): credit during 12 months of chief year ONLY
- Surgeon Junior (SJ): credit during all other years of training
- Teaching Assistant (TA): when a senior resident is working with another resident who will count the case as “SJ”.
- TA cases count toward TOTAL MAJOR, but not SURGEON CHIEF totals. Minimum 25
- First Assistant (FA): when resident is acting as an assistant and not the primary surgeon
- Most cases where one resident is scrubbed with the attending should be SJ
- FA cases do NOT count toward TOTAL MAJOR
That is all for now—hope to see you soon at M+M and the Town Hall!
Yours,
Kenzo Hirose
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