For applicants

Mentorship, evaluation, and feedback

GURS requires participating programs to provide regular formative and summative evaluations, and the program meets that requirement.

Beyond those, there is no standing one-on-one meeting. Feedback is continuous instead. The fellow operates with the fellowship director rather than rotating among a faculty roster, so coaching happens during the case and immediately after it, on most days of the week. The fellow can ask for a debrief on any case at any time.

That cadence is the direct consequence of how autonomy is granted here. Because progression is tracked by operative step rather than by date, the feedback that decides the year is about the next step: what the fellow did, what it cost, and what has to be consistent before that part of the operation becomes theirs. A quarterly review cannot carry that conversation, and it is not asked to. Section 7 describes the progression itself.