Blog: Are today's new surgeons unprepared?

In a recent blog posted on The New York Times’ Well site, Pauline Chen, MD, writes that surgical residency used to be a period of both intensive experience and increasing responsibility under the guidance of more experienced surgeons; and recent research has demonstrated a strong link between a surgeon’s operative skill, the number of operations performed, and patient outcomes. However, with limits set on their time at the hospital, young surgeons-in-training today have fewer opportunities to care for patients or scrub in on operations.