Welcome to the American College of Surgeons Residency Assist Page (RAP)
This website’s purpose is to assist residency and fellowship program directors with issues from analysis of ABSITE scores to zeroing in on solutions to common problems and opportunities. RAP is written with the busy program/fellowship director in mind. It features brief and timely articles relevant to the everyday responsibilities and challenges faced by large and small programs based at university or community hospitals.
Members of the RAP Editorial Board represent various surgical disciplines. Readers should feel free to contact me (ddarosa@nmh.org) or other members of the RAP Editorial Board to suggest an idea and/or author for an article. We also welcome requests for articles on specific topics or problems not yet addressed in RAP, or felt to need expansion or an update. The editorial board will work to address the request by finding the author(s) best poised to write the RAP article.
The role and responsibilities of a program or fellowship director have changed dramatically in the last decade. The complexity of leading a sound surgical graduate medical education program is increasingly challenging. Yet even with these challenges, I find most program and fellowship directors intrinsically driven to lead their faculty in an all-out effort to graduate the competent and compassionate surgeons needed for tomorrow’s surgical workforce. The Division of Education of the American College of Surgeons developed RAP and recruited an Editorial Board dedicated to helping residency and fellowship program directors share concerns, problems, best practices in education, and possible solutions through this electronic column. On behalf of the RAP Editorial Board, know we will seek to publish timely and informative articles to help graduate education leaders in their critical quest.
Debra A. DaRosa, Ph.D.
Editor, ACS Residency Assist Page
Revised July 22, 2011