Endoscopy Education in General Surgery Residencies: Meeting the New RRC Requirements

Most programs responding to our survey are already compliant with the new RRC requirement. Much of this teaching occurs by non-surgeons and commonly away from the dominant teaching hospital. Future changes in endoscopy requirements should consider the impact of increasing nonsurgical teaching time. It seems likely that non-responding programs have even lower numbers than those responding and may have an even higher barrier to successfully increasing endoscopy education by surgeons.