Arghavan Salles

An Op-Ed piece on how people react when women express anger and how that limits women's ability to express ourselves.

We assessed how anti-diabetic medications are modified after bariatric surgery. We found there is a significant amount of variability in theses strategies.

We evaluated single-institution data on pass rates for FLS by post-graduate year. We found that taking FLS earlier did not negatively impact pass rates.

Several years after we founded a resident well-being program at Stanford Health Care, we performed a survey of the surgical residents to assess their view on various aspects of the program. Residents most valued a refrigerator stocked with healthy food, meetings with a psychologist, and social events.

We wrote a broad overview of data related to surgical resident well-being.

(in press) We found that social belonging was positively associated with positive well-being outcomes and was inversely associated with risk of attrition as measured by self-report items.

(in press). We performed a laboratory experiment with surgical residents. We randomized residents to a stereotype-threat or no-threat condition. We then had them complete a surgical task (mental rotation) and a working memory task. While the threat condition did not negatively impact women's performance, across conditions women had higher working memory then men.

We assessed the degree to which surgical residents are concerned about being judged for their gender or having their gender judged for their actions. We found that, for both men and women, having these concerns about their gender was associated with worse well-being. This highlights the importance of lessening the prevalence of gender schemas that suggest men and women can only behave in certain ways.

(in press). We found that surgical residents' self-efficacy is relatively high, and self-efficacy is positively associated with positive well-being outcomes.

We used survey data of surgical educators to identify what areas they thought would be important for future research.

Building upon previous work showing that grit was positively associated with well-being outcomes among surgical residents, we then assessed the relationship of grit with risk of attrition as measured by self-report data. We found that those with more grit had lower risk of attrition.

I wrote a letter in response to a review article on confidence among surgical residents. I shared some data I had previously collected on self-efficacy among surgical residents.

We performed a randomized controlled trial of values affirmations among surgical residents. Women who were assigned to the treatment condition had significantly better performance, as measured by clinical evaluations, than those in the control condition. There was no difference in performance for men. These data are consistent with previous data on the impact of values affirmations interventions which show that groups at risk for stereotype threat benefit from the intervention while there is no… Show more

We performed a randomized controlled trial of values affirmations among surgical residents. Women who were assigned to the treatment condition had significantly better performance, as measured by clinical evaluations, than those in the control condition. There was no difference in performance for men. These data are consistent with previous data on the impact of values affirmations interventions which show that groups at risk for stereotype threat benefit from the intervention while there is no significant impact to those who are not at risk for stereotype threat (the majority). Show less

We measured emotional intelligence and correlated it with resident well-being and social belonging, finding that emotional intelligence was positively correlated with positive well-being outcomes.

We display four different minimally invasive approaches to resection of benign gastric tumors (wedge resection, circumferential resection, transgastric resection, and submucosal endoscopic resection).

This was one of the key papers that came out of my dissertation research. We identified that 1) both male and female residents perceive faculty, residents, and the public to believe men are better surgeons than women and 2) the more women perceived this (higher stereotype perception), the worse their psychological well-being was.

We used a national trauma database to try to identify what data available in the ED can predict whether a patient will go on to have a significant brain injury requiring ICU monitoring or not.

We wrote a call for action recognizing the current well-being crisis among surgical residents.

We assessed grit and its association with well-being (as measured by the Maslach Burnout Inventory and the Duputy Psychological General Well-being Index) among surgical residents. In one of the earliest works assessing grit in surgical residents, we identified that grit was positively associated with positive well-being outcomes. The presentation of this work was selected as one of the top 10 presentations at the Association for Surgical Education that year.

Case report of an intrahepatic choledochal cyst

Describe the use of minimum intensity projections (as opposed to maximum intensity projections) in abdominal CT imaging for assessment of pancreatic abnormalities

We found that surgical residents' self-efficacy was relatively high, and their self-efficacy was positively associated with well-being outcomes.