Surgical trainees who complete the Flexible Endoscopy Curriculum, or FEC, are more likely to pass the Fundamentals of Endoscopic Surgery, or FES, manual skills test on the first try, according to a study presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons.
One factor, however, proved even more influential than FEC completion in predicting whether trainees would pass the manual skills test: gender.
Male trainees were three