{"podcast":{"title":"Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast","slug":"behind-the-knife-the-surgery-podcast-321171","podcast_index_feed_id":321171,"rss_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5046960.rss","website_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5046960","image_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/39463562.jpg","author":"Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast","episode_count":500,"summary":"Behind the Knife is the world’s #1 surgery podcast. From high-yield educational topics to interviews with leaders in the field, Behind the Knife delivers the information you need to know. Tune in for timely, relevant, and engaging content designed to help you DOMINATE THE DAY! Behind the Knife is more than a podcast. Visit www.behindtheknife.org to learn more.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-07T16:21:08.041770+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/behind-the-knife-the-surgery-podcast-321171"},"episode":{"title":"Are EPAs Actually Working? An Honest Look at Competency-Based Surgical Training","slug":"are-epas-actually-working-an-honest-look-at-competency-based-surgical-training","published_at":"2026-07-02T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/behind-the-knife-the-surgery-podcast-321171/are-epas-actually-working-an-honest-look-at-competency-based-surgical-training","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/behind-the-knife-the-surgery-podcast-321171","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8917317","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/arttrk.com/p/ABMA5/pscrb.fm/rss/p/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audioboom.com/posts/8917317.mp3?modified=1782925807&sid=5046960&source=rss","summary":"Two years into the EPA era — are we actually training surgeons differently, or just checking new boxes? In this episode, Behind the Knife co-director and Duke Trauma Surgeon Dr. Patrick Georgoff and Behind the Knife surgical education fellows Dr. Agnes Premkumar and Dr. Emma Burke sit down with Dr. Ruchi Thanawala, thoracic surgeon at OHSU, informatician, and founder of Firefly Labs, to get an honest look at the state of competency-based surgical education. We dig into why surgery is uniquely hard to assess, what the data are actually showing (spoiler: significant skewing, and we're not ready to make promotion decisions off it yet), and why collecting assessments is only 25% of the work. If you've ever wondered whether EPAs are moving the needle or just adding noise, this one's for you ***FREE EPA COURSE: https://behindtheknife.org/premium/epa-playbook Simply create an account on behindtheknife.org or our app and you the course will automatically show up in your Library. Please visit https://behindtheknife.org to access other high-yield surgical education podcasts, videos and more. If you liked this episode, check out our recent episodes here: https://behindtheknife.org/listen Behind the Knife Premium: https://behindtheknife.org/premium Oral Board Review: https://behindtheknife.org/oral-board Oral Board Simulator: https://behindtheknife.org/oral-board/simulator General Surgery Oral Board Review Course: https://behindtheknife.org/premium/general-surgery-oral-board-review Trauma Surgery Video Atlas: https://behindtheknife.org/premium/trauma-surgery-video-atlas Dominate Surgery: A High-Yield Guide to Your Surgery Clerkship: https://behindtheknife.org/premium/dominate-surgery-a-high-yield-guide-to-your-surgery-clerkship Dominate Surgery for APPs: A High-Yield Guide to Your…","meta_description":"Two years into the EPA era — are we actually training surgeons differently, or just checking new boxes? In this episode, Behind the Knife co-director and…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2232,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/behind-the-knife-the-surgery-podcast-321171/episodes/are-epas-actually-working-an-honest-look-at-competency-based-surgical-training/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/behind-the-knife-the-surgery-podcast-321171/are-epas-actually-working-an-honest-look-at-competency-based-surgical-training.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}