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The Academic Surgeon - Official Blog of the AAS

The Academic Surgeon is the official blog of the AAS. We post anywhere from one to three times a week and our contributors will focus on issues relevant to young academic surgeons, residents, fellows, and even medical students.

If you would like to contribute, please submit your post here: https://www.aasurg.org/the-academic-surgeon-blog-submission/ 

August 10, 2022 by Madhuri Nagaraj, MD

AAS Ethics Committee Online Auction – Artist Madhuri Nagaraj

  From the AAS Ethics Committee’s 2021 Artwork and Essay Contest, five artists donated their work to our Online Auction, raising funds for the Henri Ford Junior Faculty Research Award. This week we showcase the artists and their work.   About the Art: Do No Harm – A central tenet of medicine is “Do No […]

August 9, 2022 by Imani McElroy, MD

AAS Ethics Committee Online Auction – Artist I.E. McElroy

  From the AAS Ethics Committee’s 2021 Artwork and Essay Contest, five artists donated their work to our Online Auction, raising funds for the Henri Ford Junior Faculty Research Award.  This week we showcase the artists and their work.   About the Art: Two Americas – We live in two Americas. One where, when I […]

August 8, 2022 by Scarlett Hao, MD

AAS Ethics Committee Online Auction – Artist Scarlett Hao

  From the AAS Ethics Committee’s 2021 Artwork and Essay Contest, five artists donated their work to our Online Auction, raising funds for the Henri Ford Junior Faculty Research Award. This week we showcase the artists and their work.   About the Art: Angel of Death – I was pregnant during the COVID pandemic and […]

August 5, 2022 by Heather Lillemoe, MD

Get in the Habit of Having Good Habits

Following suit after an AAS blog post from another former Vanderbilt General Surgery Residency graduate,1 I decided to base this post on what we call a “Tarpism.” Tarpisms are phrases stated (and often repeated) by former Vanderbilt General Surgery program director and poignant advice giver, Dr. John Tarpley. This one, in particular, has been on […]

August 4, 2022 by Angel Charles, MD

For Her

I can hear her giggling on the other side of the living room door as I turn my key. I open the door and she smiles as big as she can and runs over to me at full speed. I pick her up, hold her close and spin her in circles. Then I shower my […]

August 1, 2022 by Jordan Broekhuis MD MPH

Member Spotlight for August 2022 – Benjamin James, MD MS

Each month, the AAS Membership Committee presents the “Member Spotlight” – an opportunity to introduce you to a member of your association. Dr. Ben James is the Chief of the Section of Endocrine Surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Assistant Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA.  He also […]

July 26, 2022 by Nicole Von Husen

#AASChat Twitter Topic for July 27th “Promotion”

Join us Wednesday, July 27th at 8 PM ET on Twitter @AcademicSurgery. Our popular #AASChat series continues this month, led by Drs. Purvi Patel (@pppatelmd) and Chandler Cortina (@chandlercortina). The topic of discussion will be Promotion, and the chat questions that will direct the conversation will include: Question 1: When should you start thinking about […]

July 20, 2022 by Filip Bednar, MD, PhD, FACS

Finding Funding Sources

Identifying sources of research funding is a core task for every surgeon-scientist. However, none of us are ever systematically taught about ways to achieve this critical goal. The blog post will provide a general outline of funding sources for surgeons in the early stage of their academic career and a few core pearls learned from […]

July 18, 2022 by Lauren Evans, MD and Monica Jain, MD

Metrics that Matter – Academic Currency for Surgical Innovation

Academic surgeons are natural innovators. In the last century, significant advancements in medicine have been driven by surgeon innovators such as DeBakey and Fogarty.1 Despite the role of innovation in academic surgery, academic advancement criteria fail to align with measures of meaningful innovation. The traditional methods to evaluate success in academic surgery grossly underappreciate accomplishments […]

July 15, 2022 by Karin Hardiman, MD, PhD

How to Make Resident Research Time High Yield

One thing that I have always been passionate about is resident research. I think this likely originated during my own time as a research resident. Even though I felt that I learned a lot, I did not publish many papers. I worked on projects but did not know how to translate that into the credits […]

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