Highlights
- •Patient-centric resident conferences are a valuable tool in resident education.
- •PCRCs help residents understand patients' perioperative experiences.
- •Patients value communication, quality of life, and the patient-physician relationship.
- •Residents do not emphasize the impact of the system on perioperative care.
- •Themes from PCRCs are complimentary to material covered in resident didactics.
Abstract
Background
Patient-centric resident conferences (PCRCs) provide meaningful time to connect with
and learn from patients. This qualitative study explores themes of patients’ perioperative
experiences from PCRCs through patient and resident perspectives.
Methods
General Surgery residents participated in six PCRCs, which include condensed standard
didactics to accommodate a patient panel regarding their perioperative experience.
Panel transcripts and resident survey responses describing what they learned were
coded using grounded theory methodology. Themes were evaluated and compared.
Results
76 identified codes were grouped into major categories: “Medical/Surgical Knowledge,”
“Patient Perspective,” “Patient-Physician Relationship,” and “Communication.” Themes
from resident responses predominantly paralleled patient discussion, with common themes
including “impact of disease and surgery on patient” and “compassion/empathy.” “Medical/surgical
knowledge” was only present in resident responses while themes regarding quality of
life were more frequent in patient transcripts.
Conclusions
PCRCs are a valuable tool in resident education to understand patients’ perioperative
experiences. Themes from patient panels complement, but do not replace, information
covered in didactic lectures.
Keywords
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Publication history
Published online: January 21, 2023
Accepted:
January 20,
2023
Received in revised form:
December 26,
2022
Received:
November 11,
2022
Publication stage
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