Session Design Submission Review

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• Vice Chairs of Education (VCE)

Failure to rescue in surgical care is when a complication does not receive timely and appropriate treatment leading to further complications, disability, or even death.  FTR often involves the trifecta of delayed recognition, delayed communication and/or delayed action.  These clinical enterprise concepts are pertinent in surgical education as well.  Unfortunately, trainees and faculty at different stages often struggle in their competencies, as a complication of training.  Similar to clinical failure to rescue, delays in recognition, delayed communication and/or delayed action result in significant, negative downstream effects on career and well-being.  In this panel, we aim to cover struggling learners spanning UME, GME and faculty.

In this panel, panelists use case scenarios to:

1. discuss examples of failure to rescue in surgical education
2. enumerate points of rescue
3. evaluate strategies to rescue
4. draw parallels between clinical enterprise processes and educational failure to rescue.

At the conclusion of the session, attendees will:

1. Be able to recognize a struggling learner/faculty member
2. Have strategies for early intervention and avoid the “failure to rescue”
3. Have tools to address the “failure to rescue” in a more confident and productive manner

discuss examples of failure to rescue in surgical education

enumerate points of rescue

evaluate strategies to rescue

draw parallels between clinical enterprise processes and educational failure to rescue.