I’m curious how many cases we should be logging in each year of residency. If the average resident who doesn’t do a year of endovascular is hitting 1200-2000 cases depending on the program and area of interest, how many cases should that translate into every year of residency? I want to make sure I’m not falling behind
Similar here. Graduating usually have around 1400-1700 cases unless they did endovascular.
Graduating chief at a busy Midwest program here. I currently have about 2300 cases, and will prob graduate with about 2500 if I continue at my current rate. This is relatively average for graduating chiefs from my program
PGY-1s are getting 150-200 cases/yr? Is that as lead surgeon or opening/closing?
PGY7 at a busy southern program. Intern year was ~100, PGY2/3 were 250ish, PGY4 was 300, PGY5 (research) around 150, Chief year was around 450-500, enfolded fellowship ~250. If you count the non-surgical and EVD stuff that's another 300-400, but I wouldn't include that in any calculation.
Someone has already mentioned that pure case numbers are incredibly deceiving. Nothing beats actual autonomy in the OR. My PGY7 was many fewer cases - but they were T10-pelvis deformity cases done with the attending not in the room. Can't do more than two of those in a day (don't care who you are). I would wager that one of those cases where you independently do the instrumentation is worth 10+ where the attending is guiding you through it. You cannot say "I can do X" until you've done it all the way through with the attending only minimally scrubbing.