Steven Char

Surgical resident @MSHSSurgery via @ColumbiaPS, @BrownUniversity | thinking about trauma/crit care, ethics, and pal care| he/him

[Steven Char @StevenChar23]

Last year, we took stock of resident confidence and competence with surgical ethics topics at our program, and designed a longitudinal curriculum to address those needs. Here’s what we found:

cc: @MSHSSurgery

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[Steven Char @StevenChar23]

If you’re interested in learning more, or in building a similar curriculum at your program, DM me!!

Thanks to @JSE for sharing our work. Full paper here:
https://t.co/C20LOJyS8F

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[Steven Char @StevenChar23]

Last year, we took stock of resident confidence and competence with surgical ethics topics at our program, and designed a longitudinal curriculum to address those needs. Here’s what we found:

cc: @MSHSSurgery

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[Steven Char @StevenChar23]

Residents at our program found the curriculum relevant, efficient, and useful, and it demonstrably increased resident confidence in 10/10 of the surgical ethics domains covered!

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[Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS) @acsJACS]

The findings of this study may serve as a useful starting point for the development of a dedicated surgical ethics curriculum aimed at better equipping surgeons to navigate the dilemmas they are likely to face in practice.

Read more at: https://t.co/Bh3tqYrUrS

[Steven Char @StevenChar23]

@snakagawa_md Thank you, Dr Nakagawa!

[Steven Char @StevenChar23]

It’s our hope that our findings may help as a useful starting point in designing such a curriculum 📚.

Many thanks to the @ColumbiaSurgery surgeons who took the time to discuss some very challenging topics with us, and to @acsJACS for sharing our work

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[Steven Char @StevenChar23]

We asked 30 attending surgeons about the common ethical dilemmas they encounter in their day-to-day practice, and how well equipped they feel to face them.

Here’s what they said, and more on why we asked:

cc: @columbia_ccme @ColumbiaSurgery

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[Steven Char @StevenChar23]

Overall there was strong support for a dedicated, surgery specific ethics curriculum—by surgeons, for surgeons—involving a blend of lectures 📖 and sim 🔪, to help better equip surgeons to navigate the ethical challenges unique to our field.

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[Steven Char @StevenChar23]

Excited to share the results of my @ColumbiaPS scholarly project on surgical ethics + a new surg ethics curriculum at #ACSCC23 in October! See you in Boston!

@ColumbiaSurgery @columbia_ccme