CC BY 4.0 · Revista Brasileira de Cirurgia Plástica (RBCP) – Brazilian Journal of Plastic Surgery 2024; 39(04): s00441801795
DOI: 10.1055/s-0044-1801795
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Translation and Content Validation of the Plastic Surgery Milestones Project 2.0 for the Portuguese Language

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1   Mestrado em Ensino nas Ciências da Saúde, Faculdades Pequeno Príncipe, Curitiba, PR, Brasil
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1   Mestrado em Ensino nas Ciências da Saúde, Faculdades Pequeno Príncipe, Curitiba, PR, Brasil
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1   Mestrado em Ensino nas Ciências da Saúde, Faculdades Pequeno Príncipe, Curitiba, PR, Brasil
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1   Mestrado em Ensino nas Ciências da Saúde, Faculdades Pequeno Príncipe, Curitiba, PR, Brasil
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2   Serviço de Cirurgia Plástica e Microcirurgia Reconstrutora, Instituto Nacional de Câncer (INCA), Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brasil
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3   Departamento de Biologia Celular e Fisiologia, School of Medicine, University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, Estados Unidos
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4   Curso de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brasil
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Financial Support The authors declare that they did not receive financial support from agencies in the public, private or non-profit sectors to conduct the present study.

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Abstract

Introduction The assessment of skills acquired during plastic surgery residency remains challenging. The present study aimed to validate The Plastic Surgery Milestones Project 2.0—a tool used to assess the competencies developed by plastic surgery residents in programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)—to enable its use in plastic surgery residency programs in Brazil.

Materials and Methods The process involved obtaining authorization from the ACGME, translating the instrument into Portuguese, adaptation by plastic surgery experts, content validation based on theoretical frameworks, and back translation to assess semantic equivalence.

Results The adapted instrument remained similar to the original after considerations and adjustments made by Brazilian experts. With the back translation, which was evaluated by a medical education expert and the ACGME, the adequacy of the translation was confirmed, which enabled the validation of the content of the instrument for the context of plastic surgery in Brazil. The similarity between Brazilian and international competencies facilitated this successful adaptation.

Conclusion The translation and adaptation of the Milestones instrument for the Brazilian culture was successful, since it maintained the original's psychometric properties. The adapted version is ready for application. However, additional studies are necessary to validate its accuracy and reliability in Brazilian programs.

Authors' Contributions

DV: data analysis and/or interpretation, data collection, conceptualization, project management, investigation, methodology, writing – original draft preparation, and writing – review and editing; API: data collection and investigation; JMS: final manuscript approval, project management, investigation, and supervision; CFC: data analysis and/or interpretation, and final manuscript approval; DYS: data collection and conceptualization; SM: data collection, methodology, and visualization; and BLP: resource management.


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Eingereicht: 22. Juli 2024

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Bibliographical Record
Dunia Verona, Antonio Pacheco Ilgenfritz, Juliano Mendes de Souza, Carlos Fernando Collares, Daniel Yukio Sakaki, Stewart Mennin, Beatriz Lanza Pauli. Tradução e validação de conteúdo do Plastic Surgery Milestones Project 2.0 para a língua portuguesa. Revista Brasileira de Cirurgia Plástica (RBCP) – Brazilian Journal of Plastic Surgery 2024; 39: s00441801795.
DOI: 10.1055/s-0044-1801795