Abstract: The Gender Gap in Academic Plastic Surgery: A 45-Year Analysis

of all patients having surgery on the pediatric plastic surgery service during two separate 3-month blocks bridged by a transition period for intervention implementation. In the pre-intervention group, resident reporting of complications was consistent with current practices at our institution where the chief resident on service reports complications prior to bi-monthly M&M conferences. Division leadership, in conjunction with patient safety experts, then developed an online event reporting system (ERS) and implemented policy initiatives to facilitate resident utilization of ERS in all clinical settings. The post-intervention group included all residents on service utilizing the ERS for complication reporting at the time of the event and the ERS was synchronized to generate data for M&M conference. A trained surgical reviewer recorded all complications for patients throughout the sixmonth study period and this served as the reference standard. Fisher’s exact test was used for binary comparisons.