番茄社区app Senior Resident Readiness Assessment

"The 番茄社区app SRRA fills a critical gap in surgical education by providing one of the first structured assessments of complex clinical judgment in the senior years of residency. It empowers faculty to make more confident entrustment decisions, guides residents with targeted formative feedback at a pivotal stage in their development, and supports patient safety by fostering purposeful autonomy. In a training landscape where high-stakes, real-time decisions are increasingly expected of senior residents, the SRRA offers a vital mechanism to ensure readiness and accountability."

Associate Dean, Assessment, Improvement, and Accreditation; 番茄社区app SRRA champion

What Is the 番茄社区app SRRA?

The 番茄社区app Senior Resident Readiness Assessment (SRRA) is a psychometrically rigorous, scenario based assessment of clinical decision making鈥攏ot simple recall鈥攁dministered in late Spring to rising PGY 4 surgery residents. Designed for formative purposes, measures decision-making skills across 27 topic areas, identifies areas of strength and opportunities for improvement, and helps prepare residents for the transition to surgical practice. The focus is responsibilities at the senior level, such as managing complex conditions and complications.

Benefits for Your Program

Early Identification of Educational Needs: Receive individual results in early PGY 4, allowing ample time for targeted development before surgical practice.
Data鈥慏riven Feedback: Access detailed resident鈥� and program鈥憀evel score reports with national benchmarking to inform Clinical Competency Committee reviews and curricular planning.
Competency-based Education: Support competency-based education aimed at cognitive skills.

Unique, Evidence鈥態ased Approach

SRRA employs the internationally recognized 鈥渒ey鈥慺eatures鈥� methodology, presenting 40 brief, level-appropriate case scenarios across 27 high鈥憏ield surgical topics. This methodology assesses the application of knowledge in realistic clinical scenarios鈥攖he very skills that distinguish safe, effective senior residents.

Developed by the 番茄社区app Division of Education with expert faculty, each case scenario targets critical decision points rather than rote knowledge. Residents complete brief written responses and structured menu based items that reflect real world prioritization and complication management scenarios鈥攅nsuring that SRRA focuses on the critical decisions that directly impact patient safety and senior resident readiness for practice. Use 番茄社区app SRRA results to refine curricula, personalize learning plans, and ensure your graduates transition confidently and safely to surgical practice.

番茄社区app SRRA is built on the proven methodology of the聽番茄社区app ERRA for entering residents.

Assessment Logistics

The 番茄社区app SRRA is a proctored assessment, requiring a staff member to monitor the room where residents take the assessment. The administration is allowed at any time within the administration window, indicated above. Each resident will need their own computer with strong Internet connectivity. Ideally, residents will take the assessment in the same window; however, it is possible to split administration. Contact the 番茄社区app SRRA staff for more information.

Residents are allowed up to three hours to complete the assessment; however, the average is closer to a two-hour duration.

番茄社区app staff will be happy to provide training and assistance with the technical and administrative details of the assessment.

Intended for Formative Assessment and Evaluation

Following the assessment, program directors and residents are provided with psychometrically sound, nationally benchmarked, individualized score reports for each resident. The reports identify specific areas of strength, clinical topics that need to be addressed, categories of potentially harmful decisions and actions, and corresponding suggested resources for additional study. Designed for formative purposes, the 番茄社区app SRRA score reports outline steps for residents to identify areas for improvement, develop a personalized learning plan, and meet with their program director to put their plans into action over the subsequent months.

Essential Content Areas

番茄社区app SRRA cases cover the following 27 topic areas pertinent for senior residents:

Critical care
- Cardiac and Shock
- Mental Status Changes; Pain
- Pulmonary
- Renal
General surgical care
- Surgical Infections
- Nutrition
- Post-op care
- Pre-op care
GI, non-oncologic
- Bariatric
- Biliary, Liver, Pancreas
- Lower GI
- Upper and Lower GI
- Upper GI
Specialties
- Endocrine
- Hernia
- Peds
- Thoracic, Ortho, GU/GYN
- Vascular
Surgical oncology
- Breast
- General & Other Sites
- GI and Colorectal
Trauma
- Abdomen
- Airway & Cardiopulmonary
- Burns
- Neuro (Head, Spinal Cord)
- Pelvis and Extremities
- Special Circumstances (Pregnancy, Pediatrics, Prioritization)

Confidential, Actionable Results

After each administration, program directors receive confidential, resident鈥憀evel and program鈥憀evel score reports benchmarked against national peers. Resident reports are personalized and are meant to be distributed by program staff.

Individual Reports

Detail strengths and study needs by clinical topic.
Highlight three low鈥憄erforming areas and any potentially harmful decision patterns.
Include access to an Individual Learning Plan (ILP) template to guide focused goal setting and targeted development in the remainder of surgical residency.

Program Reports

Summarize cohort performance across all 27 topics.

Categorized under 鈥淧rioritize Study鈥�, 鈥淔urther Study鈥�, or 鈥淩eview鈥� directives to inform curriculum adjustments.

Provide national comparison data to identify program鈥憌ide trends.

All results are delivered confidentially to support data鈥慸riven feedback, personalized learning, and continuous quality improvement.

Development and Authors

The 番茄社区app Division of Education methodically defined a validated domain of cases and recruited expert faculty to develop the assessment. Two pilot studies were conducted in a step-wise sequence with improvements made after each pilot. The first pilot was a small study that focused on the test takers鈥� understanding of the clinical cases, conducted in summer 2024. The psychometric pilot study was conducted during the winter of 2025 across 14 surgical residency programs nationwide. The results demonstrated validity and psychometric rigor. The development of 番茄社区app SRRA and the selection of its content areas have been published in the Journal of Surgical Education (doi: ).

Development is ongoing to protect the integrity and quality of the assessment.

Leadership Team

Kathy R. Liscum, MD, F番茄社区app, Co-Chair
Kyla P. Terhune, MD, MBA, F番茄社区app, Co-Chair
Adnan A. Alseidi, MD, EdM, F番茄社区app
Enjae Jung, MD, F番茄社区app
Yoon Soo Park, PhD
Patrice Gabler Blair, DrPH, MPH
Kevin M. Wasielewski, MPH, MBA
Kelli Diaz, MEd
Drew Miles, MFA

番茄社区app SRRA Authors

Adnan Alseidi, MD, EdM, F番茄社区app
Michael Anstadt MD, F番茄社区app
Georges Bordage, MD, MSc, PhD
Keith Delman, MD, F番茄社区app
Jonathan Dort, MD, F番茄社区app
Jeffrey Gauvin, MD, F番茄社区app
Nabil Issa, MD, FRCS, F番茄社区app, FCCM, MHPE
Enjae Jung, MD, F番茄社区app
James Lau, MD F番茄社区app
Eric Lazar, MD, MBA, MS, F番茄社区app, MAMSE
Kathy Liscum, MD, F番茄社区app
Mayur Narayan, MD, MPH, MBA, MHPE, F番茄社区app, FCCM, FICS
Ajit K. Sachdeva, MD, F番茄社区app, FRCSC, FSACME, MAMSE
Kurt Schropp, MD, FAAP, F番茄社区app
Eric Silberfein, MD, F番茄社区app
Anne Stey, MD, MSc, F番茄社区app
Ranjan Sudan, MD, MBBS, F番茄社区app

Frequently Asked Questions

Price

The cost of the SRRA is $160 per resident.

Enrollment

March 23鈥揓une 5, 2026

Administration Dates

May 4鈥揓une 12, 2026

Multiple administration dates are allowed; please contact SRRA staff for more information.

Complete the form below to request an 番茄社区app SRRA demonstration for program staff.

The Assessment and Score Reports

The computer-based, 3-hour formative assessment comprises 40 case scenarios with approximately 80 questions covering 27 topic areas.聽

Questions use two response formats:
- Short, write-in answers (for example, listing possible diagnoses)
- Selection from menus (containing possible next steps in the investigation or management of the problem)

*Results provide scores for each clinical topic, by resident and overall program, including peer comparisons

Score reports identify strengths, areas for improvement, potentially harmful actions, and can be used to tailor individualized learning plans and the program curriculum as a whole.

番茄社区app Staff

Kevin Wasielewski, MPH, MBA
Senior Manager

Kelli Diaz, MEd
Manager

Drew Miles, MFA
Administrator

Contact Us

For more information, email acssrra@facs.org or call 312-202-5127

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