Why do we need FEC? Everything was fine the way it was!

Presented by John Mellinger, MD, FACS at the Panel: Meeting the ABS Mandate – The Program Director’s Guide to the FEC Galaxy held during the 2017 SAGES Annual Meeting in Houston, TX on Wednesday, March 22, 2017

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Crucial conversation–45 sec

Houston, we have a problem–2:05 BMC Gastroenterol 2013

Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 2010

Endoscopy 2011

GI society position statement 2011–3:07

Are numbers the answer?–4:28 GIE 2016

Surg Endosc 2015

Internal concerns–6:35

Hx: Mandated curricula–7:47

Why curricula?–8:20

Merits of a proficiency-based training paradigm–9:30 Am J Surg 2007

Surg Innov 2008