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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SURGERY
Volume 215, Issue 4, Pages 535-541Publisher
EXCERPTA MEDICA INC-ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2017.06.034
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Education theory; Medical education; Resident physician; Surgery; Surgical education; Video recording; Attending physician
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Background: Surgeons who work with trainees must address their learning needs without compromising patient safety. Methods: We used a constructivist grounded theory approach to examine videos of five teaching surgeries. Attending surgeons were interviewed afterward while watching cued videos of their cases. Codes were iteratively refined into major themes, and then constructed into a larger framework. Results: We present a novel framework, Intelligent Cooperation, which accounts for the highly adaptive, iterative features of surgical teaching in the operating room. Specifically, we define Intelligent Cooperation as a sequence of coordinated exchanges between attending and trainee that accomplishes small surgical steps while simultaneously uncovering the trainee's learning needs. Conclusions: Intelligent Cooperation requires the attending to accurately determine learning needs, perform real-time needs assessment, provide critical scaffolding, and work with the learner to accomplish the next step in the surgery. This is achieved through intense, coordinated verbal and physical cooperation. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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