The Association of VA SurgeonsAVAS Best Clinical Resident Award (Tied): Fate of non-designated preliminary general surgery residents seeking a categorical residency position
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Methods
Data were gathered prospectively from July 1997 to June 2007. None of the subjects was a patient undergoing evaluation or treatment, and therefore the study population was not subject to approval from an internal institutional review board. The subjects were NDPS general surgery residents at the University of Connecticut Health Center and Yale-New Haven Hospital during the study period. Subjects were followed by prospectively maintained databases, personal communication, Internet
Results
One hundred ten subjects were identified as NDPS residents in the study period. Of these residents, 74 (67%) were men. Ninety-five (86%) enrolled at the postgraduate year 1 level, while 15 (14%) entered into their programs as postgraduate year 2 NDPS residents. Twelve (11%) were graduates of US medical schools. Ninety-eight (89%) were international medical graduates, of whom 64 (58% of the total study group) were graduates from either Indian or Pakistani medical schools (Table 1).
Upon
Discussion
This study characterizes the training paths of medical school graduates, both domestic and international, who enrolled as NDPS trainees at two university-based general surgery residency programs. In these two training programs, the NDPS positions serve two major purposes. The first purpose is to bridge the gaps in the junior-level house staff that were left by the conversion from pyramidal to rectangular training paradigms. Now, in the second decade since the elimination of the pyramidal
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The authors examined the career paths of nondesignated preliminary surgery residents at two university-based residency programs.