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Patient safety is among the top priorities for children’s hospitals in the U.S. At the same time, a mandate to restrict work hours for physicians – also a patient safety factor – has consequences for surgeons in training. Pediatric surgery trainees are at a risk of insufficient exposure to advanced neonatal minimally invasive surgery (MIS) and endoscopy, particularly for rarely seen cases. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has found that the minimum requirements for proficiency in these procedures are barely met at a number of training programs throughout the U.S. and Canada. A team of surgeons from Lurie Children’s, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, and Women and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo sought to determine if simulation-based education (SBE) could improve both knowledge about and comfort with performing MIS in infants and children.
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