on-Physician Practitioners’ Overall nhancement to a Surgical Resident’s xperience

d T n ( URPOSE: The Mount Sinai Surgical Residency program ses physician assistants and nurse practitioners, jointly termed on-physician practitioners (NPPs), to adhere to the 80-hour ork-week restrictions implemented by Accreditation Council f Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) resident duty hour equirements initiated in 2003. A survey was performed to deermine how the integration of NPPs into the surgical subspeialty teams has affected surgical residents’ perceptions of their ducation and overall residency experience. We review the roles f NPPs within surgical specialty teams as well as our survey ndings about NPP and resident impressions about the NPP ole.