High-Stress Shifts Among Orthopaedic Trainees Alter Cognitive Abilities and Surgical Performance by Kempland C. Walley MD, Michal Jandzinski MD, Ross Michaels MD, Jack Eichman BS, Mark Hake MD, Jaimo Ahn MD PhD, James Holmes MD

“…High-stress call shift exposure was also associated with significantly worse performance on psychomotor testing, a proxy for surgical performances, as demonstrated by higher aiming errors (P = 0.028) and miss distances (P = 0.046) on drilling exercises. …”
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