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/
Deadline for Nominations – September 15, 2016 The 22nd Annual Excellence in Surgical Education Awards are now open for nomination. We are pleased to inform you that the number of awards has grown over the past several years and now include four categories: Faculty Awards Two awards are given annually to a faculty member who …
Dear Colleagues, With 2 weeks to go before the ASC submission deadline…Here are 10 reasons to submit your BEST work to the Academic Surgical Congress 2017: #10 – The largest gathering of academic surgeons in the world. #9 – Engaged audience members ranging from high school students and undergraduates through senior surgical chairs evaluating your …
The etymology of “hypocrisy” comes from the Greek term “hypokrisis,” which means “play-acting,” and described public performances. A hypocrite, or “hypokrites,” described a stage actor. The original connotation was therefore neutral. Over time the term(s) became negatively associated with distrust and impersonations. The Oxford Dictionary now defines hypocrisy as “the practice of claiming to have …
The Association for Academic Surgery has extended the application deadline for the following awards – take advantage of these funding opportunities: For Residents and Fellows: The AAS/AASF Research Fellowship Awards provide residents and fellows with a year-long funded research position. For each of the awards, the funding year begins July 1, 2017. Three awards are …
Every year, July is met with anticipation on many levels in the hospital. Medical students are starting their senior services, with some hoping to become the next class of surgical residents. Surgical interns are hoping not to kill anyone and the chief residents are starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. …
As the lyrics to the Doors song say, “Strange days have found us. Strange days have tracked us down.” Indeed, we live in crazy, scary times. Nearly every night, the lead news story is about global terrorism, domestic mass shootings, gun violence of one sort or another, or our current social and political landscape that …
Although not directly related to civilian global health, our national efforts in saving the lives of our American Heroes fighting in remote and austere locations around the globe should not go unrecognized by our global surgical community. In much the same way we as military trauma surgeons attempt to translate lessons to civilian trauma care …
Grant Applications are due August 29, 2016 Past AWSF/Ethicon, Inc. Fellowship grants have supported women surgeons by funding original research in a variety of topics, including the following: 2016: Analysis of circulationg exosomal RNA profiles in Melanoma. 2015: Teaching Palliative Care Communication Skills Following Surgical Emergencies. 2014: Clinical Trial on the efficacy of sacral neuromodulation with …
As a resident surgeon I have found great solidarity and pride in the recently popularized #ILookLikeASurgeon hashtag. Online I witnessed women surgeons across the nation and the world display their achievements and at this year’s Academic Surgical Congress I met many of the women behind the #ILookLikeASurgeon posts. Yet despite these positive experiences, I see …
More often than not, traumatic injuries result from preventable events that claim 5.8 million lives worldwide annually. These events can conceivably happen anywhere, but only by analyzing them within the greater context of a society’s economic structure can one begin to disentangle chance from circumstance. It is well established that trauma in low- and middle-income …
