285ASSOCIATION FOR ACADEMIC SURGERY AND SOCIETY OF UNIVERSITY SURGEONS—ABSTRACTS

QS60. ARE THE THORACIC ENDOVASCULAR AORTIC RE-PAIR (TEVAR) OUTCOMES GENDER DEPENDENT?H. K. Younes1, M. G. Davies1, J. Bismuth1, D. Canter1, K.Charlton-ouw1, P. Harris2, K. Zaporteza2, A. Lumsden1, E.Peden1; 1Methodist DeBakey Vascular and Heart Center, TheMethodist Hospital, Houston, TX; 2Baylor College of Medi-cine, Houston, TX

EDUCATION 3: RESIDENT AND STUDENTTRAINING

QS61. IMPROVED SKILLS RESULT FROM NEEDS BASEDCURRICULAR CHANGE. M. Maneyapanda, J. Ruvolo, J. Sunder-ram, G. B. Nackman; UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School,New Brunswick, NJ

QS62. THE ROLE OF HAPTIC FEEDBACK IN LAPARO-SCOPIC SIMULATION TRAINING. L. Panait1, E. Akkary2, R. L.Bell2, K. E. Roberts2, S. J. Dudrick1, A. J. Duffy2; 1Saint Mary’sHospital, Waterbury, CT; 2Yale University School of Medicine, NewHaven, CT

QS63. “DO ONE, TEACH ONE” THE NEW TRAINING PARA-DIGM IN GENERAL SURGERY. E. A. Picarella, Jr.1, J. D. Sim-mons1, R. E. Schmieg, Jr.1, T. R. Bilski1, W. H. Barber, IV1, K. R.Borman2, M. E. Mitchell1; 1University of Mississippi, Jackson, MS;2University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL

QS64. DOES RESIDENT INVOLVEMENT INCREASE POST-OPERATIVE COMPLICATION RATES? RESULTS FROMTHE NSQIP. E. C. Stanley, C. Heise, E. F. Foley, G. D. Kennedy;University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI

QS65. THE RETURN OF THE SURGICAL APPRENTICE-SHIP: THE IMPACT OF A DISEASE-SPECIFIC ROTATIONON SURGICAL RESIDENT EDUCATION. E. T. Durkin1, R. J.McDonald1, D. M. Mahvi2, R. S. Sippel1; 1University of Wisconsin,Madison, WI; 2Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

QS66. TEACHING ON-CALL COMPETENCE BY IMPLE-MENTING A COMBINATION OF DIDACTICS AND SIMULA-TIONS FOR JUNIOR SURGERY RESIDENTS. C. A. Morrison,C. Anderson, B. Mavis; Michigan State University, Lansing, MI

QS67. A MULTI-METHOD STUDY EVALUATING FACULTYCHARACTERISTICS AND TECHNIQUES THAT INFLUENCESTUDENT RETENTION OF LECTURE MATERIAL. S. S. Ha-gen, M. Shaikh, M. Rosenbaum, R. Axelson, K. Ephgrave; Universityof Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA

QS68. THE IMPACT OF RESIDENT WORK-HOUR RESTRIC-TION ON OUTCOMES OF CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCE-DURES. R. R. Gopaldas1, J. Huh2, F. G. Bakaeen2, X. Wang3, J. S.Coselli3, S. A. LeMaire3, D. Chu2; 1Texas Heart Institute/BaylorCollege of Medicine, Houston, TX; 2Michael E. DeBakey VA MedicalCenter, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; 3Texas Heart In-stitute at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, Houston, TX

QS69. CHOOSING A SURGICAL SPECIALTY: DO STUDENTSWITH BETTER TECHNICAL SKILLS SELF SELECT THEM-SELVES INTO SURGICAL SPECIALTIES? C. Thorson, J. Kelly,R. A. Forse, K. K. Turaga; Creighton University Medical Center,

Omaha, NE

QS70. BUILDING THE IDEAL SURGICAL RESIDENCY: A NA-TIONAL SURVEY OF SURGICAL RESIDENTS FOR OPTI-MAL SURGICAL EDUCATION STRATEGIES. C. Freiburg1, W.Bushemeyer, III2, J. M. Mammen3, T. James1; 1University ofVermont/Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, VT; 2Duke Univer-sity Medical Center, Durham, NC; 3University of Texas M.D. Ander-son Cancer Center, Houston, TX

QS71. TECHNICAL SKILLS ROTATION FOR GENERAL SUR-GERY RESIDENTS. R. I. Gonzalez, A. R. Iglesias, E. Lo Menzo, D.Hutson, D. Sleeman, A. S. Livingstone, A. K. Madan; University ofMiami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL

QS72. TRANSFORMING SURGICAL RESIDENTS INTO ACA-DEMIC SURGEONS THROUGH MENTORED CLINICAL RE-SEARCH ROTATIONS. K. K. Lee, T. R. Billiar, V. T. Collin; Uni-versity of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

QS73. ETHICS EDUCATION IN SURGICAL RESIDENCY. E. J.Grossman, P. Angelos; University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

QS74. BEHAVIORAL OSCE SEGUE SCORES IN THE EVAL-UATION OF COMMUNICATION AND INTERPERSONALSKILLS AS A CORE COMPETENCY IN SURGICAL RESI-DENTS: WHAT’S IN A NUMBER? R. Murthy, I. Rubinfeld, C.Reickert, H. M. Horst, B. Joyce, A. Shepard; Henry Ford Hospital,Detroit, MI

QS75. THE DYING FIELD OF GENERAL SURGERY-WHENDO WE INTERVENE? B. Zarebczan, R. McDonald, G. Leverson, E.Foley, S. M. Weber; University of University of Wisconsin Hospitaland Clinics, Madison WI

QS76. ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCRE-ATOGRAPHY (ERCP) SKILLS CURRICULUM DEVELOP-MENT FOR GENERAL SURGERY RESIDENTS. J. M. Martinez,A. R. Iglesias, D. I. Alaedeen, E. Lo Menzo, R. I. Gonzalez, A. K.Madan; University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL

QS77. GENDER DISTRIBUTION DISPARITIES PERSISTACROSS GENERAL SURGERY RESIDENCIES. K. R. Borman;University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Orlando, FL

QS78. STUDENT QUALITY-OF-LIFE DECLINES EQUALLYON THIRD-YEAR SURGICAL AND INTERNAL MEDICINE/PEDIATRICS CLERKSHIPS. S. B. Goldin1, M. L. Cannarozzi1,M. M. Wahi2, M. Arce3, A. S. Farooq3, O. Farooq4, C. E. Schrock1, N.Shah5, L. L. Nixon1; 1University of South Florida College of Medicine,Tampa, FL; 2USARIEM, Natick, MA; 3University of South Florida,Tampa, FL; 4Orlando Regional Medical Center, Orlando, FL; 5Uni-versity of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

QS79. STANDARDIZED PATIENTS’ VERSUS SENIOR RESI-DENTS’ SELF-ASSESSMENT OF COMMUNICATIONSKILLS. INSIGHTS FROM THE PATIENT ASSESSMENTAND MANAGEMENT EXAM. J. R. Schneider, M. J. Verta, Jr.,D. A. DaRosa; Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

QS80. IS SURGICAL RESIDENT COMFORT LEVEL ASSOCI-ATED WITH EXPERIENCE? P. A. Suwanabol, S. Weber, E. Foley,R. McDonald; University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madi-

son, WI