Response | Frequency | |
---|---|---|
n | (%) | |
What barriers did you face as chair? | ||
Financial | 8 | 47 |
Trouble booking space for events | 8 | 47 |
Poor resident involvement | 3 | 18 |
Poor faculty involvement | 2 | 12 |
Poor departmental/ university involvement | 0 | 0 |
Poor student engagement | 2 | 12 |
Conflicts with other interest groups for time | 13 | 76 |
Trouble balancing medical school with running the surgery interest group | 4 | 24 |
Other (Trouble receiving timely responses from staff surgeons regarding attendance) | 1 | 6 |
What was the single biggest obstacle during your tenure? | ||
Financial | 8 | 47 |
Poor faculty involvement | 2 | 12 |
Poor student involvement | 2 | 12 |
Poor resident involvement | 3 | 18 |
Conflicts with other interest groups for time | 13 | 76 |
Trouble getting space for events | 8 | 47 |
Trouble balancing medical school and the surgery interest group | 4 | 24 |
Other | 3 | 18 |
How do you think your SIG could improve? | ||
More Funding | 4 | 24 |
More guidance for events/ teaching skills | 1 | 6 |
Hosting more events | 2 | 12 |
Collaboration with other interest groups and SIGs nationally | 3 | 18 |
More support from faculty | 1 | 6 |
More resident involvement | 1 | 6 |
More organizing | 1 | 6 |
Delegate tasks for effectively | 1 | 6 |
More chairs | 1 | 6 |
More defined positions within the group | 1 | 6 |
More space for events | 1 | 6 |
Fever events, more higher yield events | 1 | 6 |
Would you like to see a national, collaborative Canadian Surgery interest group? | ||
Unsure | 8 | 47 |
Yes | 8 | 47 |
No | 1 | 6 |
In your opinion, what would be some of the benefits of having a national collaborative surgery interest group? | ||
Access to more funding | 9 | 53 |
Standardizing events | 8 | 47 |
Access/ connections to a greater number of surgeons | 11 | 65 |
Access/ connections to a greater number of students | 7 | 41 |
Other | 0 | 0 |
In your opinion, what would be some of the pitfalls of a national surgery interest group be? | ||
More bureaucratic/ organizational hurdles | 16 | 94 |
More work | 9 | 53 |
It wouldn’t work | 3 | 18 |
It wouldn’t improve our existing model | 3 | 18 |
Less funding | 0 | 0 |
Other | 4 | 24 |