The Operative Word from JACS

By The American College of Surgeons

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In this series the hosts talk to authors featured in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS), the official scientific journal of the American College of Surgeons.

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The Operative Word from JACS episodes:

06.20.2024
Episode 23: Home Is Not Always Where the Sleep Is: The Effect of Home Call on Sleep, Burnout, and Surgeon Well-Being
In this episode, Tom Varghese, MD, FACS is joined by Jamie Coleman, MD, FACS, from the University of Louisville. They discuss Dr Coleman’s recent article, “Home Is Not Always Where the Sleep Is: The Effect of Home Call on Sleep,...
05.16.2024
Episode 22: Expeditionary Surgeons: Essential to Surgical Leadership in World War II and Today
In this episode, Tom Varghese, MD, FACS is joined by Jeremy Cannon, MD, SM, FACS, from the University of Pennsylvania. They discuss Dr Cannon’s Excelsior Surgical Society Presidential Address, emphasizing the crucial contribution of expeditionary surgical leaders in World War II...
04.18.2024
Episode 21: Social Determinants of Outcomes Disparity among Pediatric Solid Tumor Patients
In this episode, Lillian Erdahl, MD, FACS is joined by Dai Chung, MD, FACS, from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. They discuss Dr Chung’s recent study, which demonstrates that poor health outcomes among pediatric solid tumor patients are associated...
03.21.2024
Episode 20: Anchors Aweigh! The History of Women Surgeons at Sea
In this episode, Lillian Erdahl, MD, FACS is joined by Amy Hernandez, MD, FACS, from the Department of Surgery, Naval Medical Center San Diego. They discuss Dr Hernandez’s recent study, which uses literature review, personal interviews, and correspondence with Navy...
02.15.2024
Episode 19: Practical and Ethical Guidelines for the Involvement of Trainees in Global Surgery:
In this episode, Lillian Erdahl, MD, FACS, is joined by Erin M Scott, MD, MPH, from the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School. They discuss Dr Scott’s recent study, which outlines recommendations of the American College of Surgeons Resident and...
01.18.2024
Episode 18: Diverticulitis Familiality: A Statewide Case-Control Study
In this episode, Dr Tom Varghese is joined by Jessica Cohan, MD, FACS, from the University of Utah. They discuss Dr Cohan’s recent study, which used statewide medical records linked with genealogy data to evaluate the familial contributions to diverticulitis....
11.09.2023
Episode 17: Novel Form of Breast Intraoperative Radiation Therapy with CT-Guided High-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy: Interim Results of a Prospective Phase II Clinical Trial
In this episode, Dr Jamie Coleman is joined by Shayna Showalter, MD, from the University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA. They discuss Dr Showalter’s recent study evaluating precision breast intraoperative radiation therapy (PB-IORT), which uses customized CT-based treatment...
10.05.2023
Episode 16: Comprehensive Cost Implications of Commercially Available Noninvasive Colorectal Cancer Screening Modalities
In this episode, Dr Dante Yeh is joined by Casey Allen, MD, from the Institute of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They discuss Dr Allen’s recent study, which found that widespread adoption of the fecal...
09.07.2023
Operationalizing the Culture of Burnout and Well-Being: Multicenter Study of Value Congruence and Flourishing in General Surgery Residency
In this episode, Dr. Jamie Coleman is joined by Carter Lebares, MD, FACS, from the Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco. They discuss Dr. Lebares’ recent study at 16 academic general surgery training programs, in which residents indicated...
08.03.2023
Leadership and Imposter Syndrome in Surgery
In this episode, Dr Dante Yeh is joined by Lola Fayanju, MD, MA, MPHS, FACS, from The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. They discuss Dr Fayanju’s recent study on imposter syndrome, an internalized sense of incompetence and not belonging. The...
07.06.2023
Quantifying the Prognostic Value of Preoperative Surgeon Intuition: Comparing Surgeon Intuition and Clinical Risk Prediction as Derived from the American College of Surgeons NSQIP Risk Calculator
In this episode, Dr Dante Yeh is joined by Gabriel Brat, MD, FACS, MPH and Jayson Marwaha, MD, MBI, from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA. They discuss their recent study, which compared the predictive utility of preoperative surgeon...
06.01.2023
COVID Vaccination Status and Operative Outcomes after Kidney Transplantation
In this episode, Dr Jamie Coleman is joined by Bradley Kushner, MD, from the Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis. They discuss Dr Kushner’s study, which found that patients who are unvaccinated against COVID-19 have worse compliance and healthcare...
05.04.2023
Severe Increase in Nursing Labor Cost and Effect on Surgical Department Financial Margins at an Academic, Tertiary Medical Center
In this episode, Dr Jamie Coleman is joined by Clayton Brinster, MD, FACS, from Ochsner Health. They discuss his study, which demonstrates a significant increase in surgical nursing labor cost, with a resultant decrease in department of surgery financial margins....
04.06.2023
Truth of Colorectal Enhanced Recovery Programs: Process Measure Compliance in 151 Hospitals
In this episode, Dr. Dante Yeh is joined by Tejen Shah, MD, from The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. They discuss his study, which shows that contrary to published enhanced recovery program (ERP) literature, most study hospitals had difficulty...
03.16.2023
Fluoroscopic Intraoperative Breast Neoplasm and Node Detection
In this episode, Dr Jamie Coleman is joined by Roi Weiser, MD, from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, and Suzanne Klimberg, MD, PhD, MSHCT, FACS, from the Division of Surgical Oncology at the University of Texas Medical...
02.17.2023
Cost Effectiveness of Universal Screening for Blunt Cerebrovascular Injury: A Markov Analysis
In this episode, Dr Dante Yeh is joined by Sharven Taghavi, MD, MPH, MS, FACS, from the Tulane University School of Medicine. They discuss his study on blunt cerebrovascular injury (BCVI), which is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality...
01.26.2023
Disparity-Sensitive Measures in Surgical Care: A Delphi Panel Consensus
In this episode, Dr Jamie Coleman is joined by Elzerie de Jager, MBBS(Hons), PhD, from the University of Vermont and the Center for Surgery and Public Health, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Harvard TH...
12.16.2022
Permanent vs Absorbable Mesh for Ventral Hernia Repair in Contaminated Fields
In this episode, Dr Dante Yeh is joined by Flavio Malcher, MD, MSc, from the Department of Surgery at New York University. They discuss his study, which validates the findings of recent randomized controlled trials in a larger multicenter cohort,...
11.11.2022
Core Entrustable Professional Activities for Entering Residency: A National Survey of Graduating Medical Student Self-Assessed Skills by Specialty
In this episode, Dr Coleman is joined by Dorothy Andriole, MD, FACS, who is a surgeon and the Senior Director of Medical Education Research at the Association of American Medical Colleges, and Jonathan Amiel, MD, who is a professor of...
10.21.2022
Analyzing Impact of Multimorbidity on Long-Term Outcomes after Emergency General Surgery: A Retrospective Observational Cohort Study
In this episode, Dr. Yeh is joined by Claire Rosen, MD, from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. They discuss her recent paper, which demonstrates that past medical history, specifically multimorbidity, influences the risk of adverse outcomes after emergency...
09.16.2022
Long-Term Outcomes after Adolescent Bariatric Surgery
In this episode, Dr Coleman is joined by Nestor F De la Cruz-Muñoz Jr, MD, Professor of Surgery and Section Chief of Bariatric Surgery at the University of Miami. They discuss his recent study, which demonstrates the lasting, positive impact...
08.19.2022
Use of Direct Oral Anticoagulant and Associated Bleeding and Thrombotic Complication after Lower Extremity Bypass
In this episode, Dr. Yeh is joined by lead author Danielle C. Sutzko, MD, MS, from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and senior author Andrea T. Obi, MD, FACS, from the University of Michigan, both vascular surgeons. They discuss...
07.15.2022
Mass Shootings in America: Consensus Recommendations for Healthcare Response
In the inaugural episode, hosts Jamie Coleman, MD, FACS, and Dante Yeh, MD, FACS, speak with Craig Goolsby, MD, MEd, FACEP, Professor and Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and Science Director...

What's The Operative Word from JACS about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

The Operative Word from JACS episodes:

Episode 23: Home Is Not Always Where the Sleep Is: The Effect of Home Call on Sleep, Burnout, and Surgeon Well-Being

Episode 22: Expeditionary Surgeons: Essential to Surgical Leadership in World War II and Today

Episode 21: Social Determinants of Outcomes Disparity among Pediatric Solid Tumor Patients

Episode 20: Anchors Aweigh! The History of Women Surgeons at Sea

Episode 19: Practical and Ethical Guidelines for the Involvement of Trainees in Global Surgery:

Episode 18: Diverticulitis Familiality: A Statewide Case-Control Study

Episode 17: Novel Form of Breast Intraoperative Radiation Therapy with CT-Guided High-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy: Interim Results of a Prospective Phase II Clinical Trial

Episode 16: Comprehensive Cost Implications of Commercially Available Noninvasive Colorectal Cancer Screening Modalities

Operationalizing the Culture of Burnout and Well-Being: Multicenter Study of Value Congruence and Flourishing in General Surgery Residency

Leadership and Imposter Syndrome in Surgery

Quantifying the Prognostic Value of Preoperative Surgeon Intuition: Comparing Surgeon Intuition and Clinical Risk Prediction as Derived from the American College of Surgeons NSQIP Risk Calculator

COVID Vaccination Status and Operative Outcomes after Kidney Transplantation

Severe Increase in Nursing Labor Cost and Effect on Surgical Department Financial Margins at an Academic, Tertiary Medical Center

Truth of Colorectal Enhanced Recovery Programs: Process Measure Compliance in 151 Hospitals

Fluoroscopic Intraoperative Breast Neoplasm and Node Detection

Cost Effectiveness of Universal Screening for Blunt Cerebrovascular Injury: A Markov Analysis

Disparity-Sensitive Measures in Surgical Care: A Delphi Panel Consensus

Permanent vs Absorbable Mesh for Ventral Hernia Repair in Contaminated Fields

Core Entrustable Professional Activities for Entering Residency: A National Survey of Graduating Medical Student Self-Assessed Skills by Specialty

Analyzing Impact of Multimorbidity on Long-Term Outcomes after Emergency General Surgery: A Retrospective Observational Cohort Study

Long-Term Outcomes after Adolescent Bariatric Surgery

Use of Direct Oral Anticoagulant and Associated Bleeding and Thrombotic Complication after Lower Extremity Bypass

Mass Shootings in America: Consensus Recommendations for Healthcare Response