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 Ethics Committee held its first annual Artwork and Essay Contest in 2021 – the topic for the essay contest was “What is the most challenging ethical issue, personal or professional, you have encountered in the COVID era?” The winning essay and artwork were selected by the Ethics Committee and will be published in …
The recognition of physician burnout as a significant problem in medicine has been established in recent years and has become even more evident during the COVID-19 pandemic. The daily stressors that come with a career in medicine further compounded by weekly and sometimes daily changes to our practices, personal lives, and the impact on family …
Join your colleagues for our next AAS Tweetchat, Wednesday, December 15th beginning at 9:00pm Eastern – Drs. Erika Rangel and Rebecca Scully will co-moderate a discussion based on Dr. Rangel’s recent blog article: Having it All and “Leaning in”: Infertility, Pregnancy, and Obstetric Complications in US Surgeons I became pregnant during my fourth year of …
The AAS Ethics Committee held its first annual Artwork and Essay Contest in 2021 – the topic for the essay contest was “What is the most challenging ethical issue, personal or professional, you have encountered in the COVID era?” The winning essay and artwork were selected by the Ethics Committee and will be published in …
The AAS Ethics Committee held its first annual Artwork and Essay Contest in 2021 – the topic for the essay contest was “What is the most challenging ethical issue, personal or professional, you have encountered in the COVID era?” The winning essay and artwork were selected by the Ethics Committee and will be published in …
The AAS Ethics Committee held its first annual Artwork and Essay Contest in 2021 – the topic for the essay contest was “What is the most challenging ethical issue, personal or professional, you have encountered in the COVID era?” The winning essay and artwork were selected by the Ethics Committee and will be published in …
Each month, the AAS Membership Committee presents the “Member Spotlight” – an opportunity to introduce you to a member of your association. Kyle Van Arendonk, MD, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Pediatric Surgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Children’s Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Originally from Iowa, he completed …
October 28th was the tenth year anniversary of my first deployment. As I pause to reflect, I am reminded of the heroism of our soldiers rushing to aid our wounded brothers and sisters on the field. In the days leading up to my deployment, I remember qualifying for the M9 combat handgun and the M14 …
“See one, do one, teach one” has long been regarded as the gold standard by which medical trainees are introduced to clinical practice. Within general surgery, this idea of staged progression traces back to William Stewart Halsted, who famously provided graduated autonomy to selected trainees.1 There is no doubt that the Halstedian model of surgical …
It is remarkable to think about how much the landscape has changed for academic clinicians over the past decade. Historically, academic productivity (and hence promotion) was measured through the extent of one’s extramural funding, quantity and quality of publications, and national reputation as measured by speaking invitations and society involvement. While each of these metrics …
