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You are here: Home / Videos / Why do we need FEC? Everything was fine the way it was!

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


Keyword(s): ABS mandate, ABS recertification, academic, ACGME, ACLS, adenoma detection, advanced training, American Board of Surgery, ASGE, assessment, ATLS, banding, Canada, cancer, cannulation, capsule endoscopy, cardiology, chairman, clinical skills exam, clinical volume, cognitive, competency, competency-based training, cost, credentialing, critical access hospital, crucial conversation, curricula, demographics, education, endoscopy, endoscopy training, ERCP, ESD, evidence based, faculty, FEC, fellowship program director, FES, flexible endoscopy, flexible endoscopy curriculum, FLS, GAGES, gastroenterology, gastrointestinal diseases, Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, gastrointestinal surgery, general surgery residents, GI fellowships, GI society, GI surgery, GIE, graduates, instruction, intraluminal, lap chole, laparoscopic cholecystectomy, laparoscopy, laparoscopy surgery, learning, learning curve, medical school, methodology, nurse practitioners, operative errors, orientation, orthopedic, papilla, PEG, performance, PGY1, POEM, polypectomy, proficiency-based training, program director, public trust, residency, residency training, resident, rural surgeons, SAGES Board, SCORE, screening colonoscopy, simulation, simulation training, standardized, teach, testing sites, therapeutic interventions, training, urban centers, validation, withdrawal

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

ANZ J Surg 2009

Validated curricula & skill leveraging–10:00 Am J Surg 2010

Surgery 2011

Am J Surg 2010

What are the costs?–12:46

Rural surgeons needs–13:18

JACS 2005

Am J Surg 2015

Premise: ABS recert data–14:47

ABS FEC for general surgery residents–15:27

The basics–15:35

FEC–16:13

Why FEC?–17:16 Surg Endosc 2014

Where are we going?–19:28

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