Association for Academic Surgery (AAS)
Inspiring and Developing Young Academic Surgeons
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/
The AAS Foundation is excited to launch our third annual “Get Off Your AAS” Fitness Challenge prior to the upcoming Academic Surgical Congress (ASC). In preparation for this motivating campaign, we need your help! We are looking for a new, fun, and fresh logo to kick off this initiative! The new logo will be featured …
Join us Tonight! October 24th at 7 PM ET on Twitter @AcademicSurgery. You won’t want to miss this month’s #AASChat led by University of Chicago’s Drs. Tanya Zakrison (@tzakrison), Mihir Chaudhary (@mihirjaychaudh ), Sade Garcia (@drksgh), Anthony Douglas (@anthonyDDouglas), Samuel Osei (@samueloseiMD), and Mary Noory (@DrMaryToya). The topic of discussion will be Leading Social Justice …
Student loans have become an important but dreaded reality that many of us must face following medical school. Whether or not you realize it or not they aren’t going to disappear and the best thing you can do is to get familiar with your loans and come up with a game plan to tackle them. …
Rhode Island Hospital’s origins extend to the early 19th century. Like many medical centers, it’s campus is cobbled together, and embodies the history of hospitals and progress of medicine in its very strata. The Nursing Arts Building was one such layer, historically the home of the nursing school, but for me it was the lab …
When applying to general surgery residency, I remember the most common question posed at residency Q&A sessions: “Are dedicated research years required?”. More often than not, academic programs answered with some variation of, “Usually… but not always”. The concern among medical students entering the field of surgery is valid; 5 years at a resident’s salary …
Simulation has come so far! Today, almost every industry including sports and flying uses simulation, where athletes and pilots train in the necessary skills and become proficient so as to execute skill, reduce error, and better understand optimal body position and aerodynamics for critical decision-making during competition and flights. Over the last 2-3 decades, the …
The Association of Academic Surgery is gearing up for the Fundamentals of Surgical Research (FSRC) and the Early Career Development Courses (ECDC). This year, the Fall Courses will be held on October 15th the Saturday before the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress at the Manchester Grand Hyatt-San Diego. The two courses will be held …
As academic surgeons, we all pride ourselves on our active role in generating, critically appraising, and disseminating evidence; yet this evidence has limited utility until it is adopted into practice. It has been traditionally described that there is a 17-year gap between the generation of new evidence and its incorporation into routine clinical practice.1 Although …
Join us Tuesday, September 27th at 9 PM ET on Twitter @AcademicSurgery. You won’t want to miss this month’s #AASChat led by Drs. Ryan Merkow (@rpmerkow) and Kimberly (Brooke) Golisch (@BrookeTheOstomy). The topic of discussion will be Research Fellowships, and the chat questions that will direct the conversation will include: Question 1: How do you …
The surgeon-scientist has a long track record of advancing medicine, from discovering insulin to successful cellular and organ transplantation.(1, 2) Yet, with growing pressures and responsibilities in medicine (3), including balancing clinical productivity, administrative and regulatory burdens, clinical work hour expectations, and other environmental pressures, there has been an overall decline in the number surgeon-scientists …
