OpTrust®
Advancing Entrustment in Surgical Education
OpTrust provides a road map for how faculty can work together with trainees to foster entrustment and help them achieve greater operative autonomy throughout surgical training.
An Introduction to OpTrust
Educational Bundle
The OpTrust Educational Bundle includes an interactive educational development session for faculty and trainees, which features: behavioral techniques of progressive entrustment, shared mental models, learning theory, and regulatory focus and motivational fit.
Entrustment Assessment
The OpTrust measurement tool enables third-party observational rating of intraopertive entrustment for both faculty and trainees.
Implementation
Find out how to bring OpTrust education and assessment to your institution
Research
OpTrust education and assessment has enabled the advancement of entrustment knowledge. This work has been published in JAMA Surgery, Annals of Surgery, the American Journal of Surgery, Medical Educator, Surgery, the Journal of Surgical Education, Current Problems in Surgery, Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.
What trainees say about OpTrust
“OpTrust education has been crucial to help me achieve my goal of improving autonomy for surgical residents in the operating room.”
Aaron Williams, MD Transplant Fellow
“OpTrust created opportunities to learn about resident education from a unique perspective and has given me invaluable insight in how to set myself up for success during residency.”
Kristen Kolberg, MD Resident Intern
OpTrust Impact
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The OpTrust Educational Bundle has been delivered to over 500 surgical faculty across the United States.
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Over 300 surgical trainees from surgical training programs across the country have participated in OpTrust education.
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OpTrust assessment is currently being used at five academic medical centers in the US, with plans to include new sites shortly.
About Us
The Education Surgery Research Collaborative (ERSC) works to advance academic leadership for surgeons and surgeons-in-training. We are an education lab within the Department of Surgery at Michigan Medicine.
OpTrust® is a certified trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Address
Michigan Medicine
1500 E Medical Center Drive , Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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