A resident's operative role: Perception is not reality

Program directors, chairman and national accreditation bodies place great emphasis on operative case numbers, thereby exerting indirect pressure for residents to up code their level of participation. [...]the lack of a standardized nomenclature, defining the roles of the resident as well as the attending also confounds accuracy of reporting. 2 B.C. George, E.N. Teitelbaum, S.L. Meyerson, Reliability, validity, and feasibility of the Zwisch scale for the assessment of intraoperative performance, J Surg Educ, Vol. 71, Iss. 6, 2014, e90-6 3 S.L. Meyerson, E.N. Teitelbaum, B.C. George, M.C. Schuller, D.A. DaRosa, J.P. Fryer, Defining the autonomy gap: when expectations do not meet reality in the operating room, J Surg Educ, Vol. 71, Iss. 6, 2014, e64-72 4 This reference is unknown as it is commentary for AJS-D-16-00703R1. 5 X.P. Chen, R.G. Williams, D.S. Smink, J Surg Educ, Vol. 71, Iss. 6, 2014, e79-82 6 J.S. Rose, B.H. Waibel, P.J. Schenarts, J...