“Let me tell you what I wish I’d known, when I was young and dreamed of glory…you have no control who lives, who dies, who tells your story,” George Washington warns a young, scrappy, and hungry Alexander Hamilton near the end of Act One of “Hamilton.” Having just seen the musical for the third time […]

Join the Tweetchat tomorrow – at #AWSchat, co-sponsored by The Association of Women Surgeons and the AAS – discussing the effects of #MeToo and #TimesUp in healthcare. Monday July 15th at 8 pm Eastern . The #MeToo movement, with its growing visibility over the last year, has brought to the forefront the near ubiquitous prevalence […]

During a medical simulation, novice students have limited available working memory resources to learn new information.1  In addition, different elements of simulation-based medical education additively place a strain on students’ working memory by increasing their cognitive load, which competes with the information they are trying to learn (e.g., listening to faculty presentations + doubt and […]

The mission of the Association for Academic Surgery (AAS) is to inspire and develop young academic surgeons. This focus was initially directed toward aspiring young surgeons here in the United States, but over the years, the mission of the AAS has become global in scope, crossing multiple borders in the pursuit of equipping the next […]

As interest in global health continues to increase, many questions have been raised regarding the appropriateness of well-meaning but sometimes misguided attempts to help in underserved areas, particularly with short-term medical teams.  The longer I’ve been involved in global health, the more I cringe when people talk about their trips like they have cured world […]