Plastic Surgery Residency Year Influence on Surgery Duration
Hanna Pfershy, Ellie Gschwendtner, Ronald Ford · 2026
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Hanna Pfershy, Ellie Gschwendtner, and Ronald Ford studied whether trainee surgeons change how long operations take, in this 2026 paper. Teaching hospitals rely on residents, doctors in training, to help in the operating room. A common worry is that learning on the job slows cases down and strains schedules. The team tested that worry against real records from one hospital's plastic surgery service.
They reviewed operations from 2017 to 2024 and kept 12,337 that met their rules. For the most common procedures, they compared times with no resident, one resident, and two, and by the resident's year of training. In at least one common operation, breast reduction, cases with residents present ran shorter, not longer. The results give schedulers firmer ground for planning lists in teaching hospitals, where training and speed are often assumed to clash.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Hanna Pfershy, Ellie Gschwendtner, Ronald Ford |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |