Identifying and Addressing High Priority Issues in General Surgery Training and Education

BACKGROUND: Complex problems are often easier to address when multiple entities collaborate. The Procedural Learning and Safety Collaborative (PLSC) was established to address complex problems in general surgery residency training by connectively engaging multiple residency programs in addressing progressive research questions. STUDY DESIGN: Recently, PLSC members held a national symposium which included leadership from several leading surgical societies to come to a consensus on what are the most critical issues in general surgery education. RESULTS: This paper describes the process used and the end result of this process. This paper describes the process used and the end result of this process. ((C) 2018 Association of Program Directors in Surgery. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)