Meera Reghunathan, Justin M Camacho, Jessica Blum, Gabriela Sendek, Thanh T Luong, Shirley Chen, Perry Bradford, Jason Llaneras, Paris D Butler, Amanda A Gosman
BACKGROUND: With the aim of facilitating a critical self-reflection on how to align plastic surgery education with making excellent plastic surgeons, a rotating small-group session followed by live interactive audience polling was used to perform a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis at the 10th Annual American Council of Academic Plastic Surgeons Winter Meeting. METHODS: The final day of the conference included a 3-hour session of rotating small groups followed by live interactive audience polls discussing the following six relevant educational topics: the Plastic Surgery Common Application and resident selection, aesthetic surgery education, leadership development and business education, embedded fellowships and focused training, mentorship, and faculty retention...
December 2023: Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Global Open