Greetings Fellow Ortho Coordinators! Please see below regarding a survey on oncology experience during residency. We kindly ask that you or your program director complete this survey. Thank you in advance!

Julia Panzo
Ohio State Orthopaedics

You are being invited to participate in a research conducted by The Ohio State University personnel. We ask you to please complete the following ~5-minute survey to help us achieve a better understanding of orthopaedic surgery residency education at residency programs across the United States and to provide insight into areas for educational improvement in this area. The survey consists of a series of questions that will help us characterize orthopaedic oncology training in the United States. Please attempt to the answer the questions to the best of your knowledge.

Participation is voluntary. You may leave the study at any time. If you decide to stop participating in the study, there will be no penalty to you, and you will not lose any benefits to which you are otherwise entitled. Your decision will not affect your future relationship with The Ohio State University.

There are minimal risks including breach of confidentiality. Benefits include gaining knowledge of education practices. No identifying information will be collected, and you will not be asked for your identity so that your responses are completely anonymous; therefore a breach of confidentiality will be minimized. However, there is a minimal risk of privacy violation given the use of online data collection.

Efforts will be made to keep your study-related information confidential. However, there may be circumstances where this information must be released. For example, personal information regarding your participation in this study may be disclosed if required by state law. Also, your records may be reviewed by the following groups (as applicable to the research):
• Office for Human Research Protections or other federal, state, or international regulatory agencies;
• The Ohio State University Institutional Review Board or Office of Responsible Research Practices;
• The sponsor, if any, or agency (including the Food and Drug Administration for FDA-regulated research) supporting the study.

If you have any questions about the research, or if you feel you have been harmed as result of study participation you may contact the PI, Dr. Thomas Scharschmidt at Thomas.Scharschmidt@osumc.edu or Eric Jiang at Eric.Jiang@osumc.edu.

For questions about your rights as a participant in this study or to discuss other study-related concerns or complaints with someone who is not part of the research team, you may contact Ms. Sandra Meadows at the Ohio State University Office of Responsible Research Practices at 1-800-678-6251.

Please click the link provided:

https://goo.gl/forms/EHheyFbxryPsslok2