Residents' performance in cardiac surgery on par with that of staff surgeons

"For patients undergoing cardiac surgery, long-term outcomes were similar whether a resident or a staff surgeon did the procedure, a single-center study found. Having a resident as the primary surgeon was not associated with death or readmission for cardiovascular reasons through a median of 2.7 years after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG), aortic valve replacement, or both (HR 1.05, 95% CI 0.94 to 1.17, P=0.42), according to Roger Baskett, M.D., of the Maritime Heart Center at Dalhousie University" - MedPage Today