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Anji Wall, MD, PhD

September 3, 2021 by Anji Wall, MD, PhD

How to Increase Organization and Enhance Productivity as an Academic Surgeon

We are all busy, so how can some academic surgeons balance their clinical work and remain academically productive?  While I don’t have all of the answers, I have some suggestions on building a productivity framework and tools that I find helpful.  In full disclosure, I am a Mac user, and several of the programs that […]

April 3, 2020 by Anji Wall, MD, PhD

Resist the Urge

Surgeons fix things. That’s what we do. We take patients broken from trauma, cancer, end stage organ disease or a myriad of other problems, we cut, and most of the time we cure. We are in a profession of action. So, what happens when we are called to the opposite; when we are asked to […]

March 30, 2018 by Anji Wall, MD, PhD

Pregnancy, New Moms, and Surgical Residency

Surgical training is particularly rough on pregnant residents.  This was made very clear in a recent study of women who were pregnant during surgical residency, which found that 39% of women surveyed considered leaving residency and 30% would advise female medical students against pursuing a surgical career.1  With so much focus on retaining and promoting […]

October 20, 2014 by Anji Wall, MD, PhD

Scope of Practice for Volunteer Surgeons in Developing Countries

In an editorial in the Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in 2006, Dr. O. Gordon Robinson, Jr. writes about an unsettling experience he had with a colleague. This colleague asked if he could observe a cleft lip procedure. When asked why, he replied that he wanted to know how to do this procedure, as […]

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Save the Date: 2023 Academic Surgical Congress

Save the date for the 18th ASC!
February 7-9, 2023
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