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/
At this year’s ASC meeting, the Education Committee presented an informative session entitled “Academic Success in Surgery: What Does It Really Take?” During that session, Allan Goldstein, MD, posited that one of the key challenges to growing or maintaining a successful basic science effort is obtaining extramural funding. Well, spring has sprung! For residents and …
It is a great honor to serve as the 49th President of the Association for Academic Surgery (AAS)! Thank you for entrusting me to lead this incredible society. Tim Pawlik, Justin Dimick and I met at the beginning of Tim’s presidency to lay out a 3-year approach that would allow increased continuity in our strategic …
Humor me for a moment and close your eyes—seriously. No matter where you are in your medical training or practice, try envisioning yourself before the responsibility of being an attending, before the years of medical training, before the decade of education, and ask yourself two simple questions. Are you the person you were before all …
Over the past few decades creating a work-life balance has become a greater priority for physicians. Numerous studies have shown that quality of life is a strong factor in medical student career choices. Quality of life concerns may also affect entry into academic medicine. Besides our clinical goals we have chosen a career in academic …
All emergency responses start the same way; with a phone call asking for help. One evening at 7:23pm in Cuenca, Ecuador, victims of a motor vehicle collision called into ECU 911, the new nationwide unified emergency response system. As an M1 observer from VCU School of Medicine, I listened in to this call alongside a …
We are pleased to announce that Jose Trevino, MD, has been selected to serve as the new Associate Editor for the Gastrointestinal Surgery section of the Journal of Surgical Research. Dr. Trevino is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville. He is fellowship-trained in surgical oncology and …
We are pleased to announce that Suresh K. Agarwal, Jr., M.D., has been selected to serve as the new Associate Editor for the Acute Care Surgery section of the Journal of Surgical Research. Dr. Agarwal is an Associate Professor of Surgery, Chief of the Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, and Program Director for …
Although there have been many articles in the medical education literature about the qualities and aspects of a good mentor, the behaviors associated with being a good mentee are typically overlooked. I think mentorship should be seen as a “two-way” street where the quality of the mentorship is only as good as the effort put …
As outgoing President, I just want to say thank you one more time to the AAS leadership and members who entrusted me to lead such a forward thinking and productive society. The AAS is in such a terrific and exciting place and it was an honor to be President during the 2015-2016 year. For those …
You are approached by a mediocre student, asking for a letter of recommendation for residency. Or an outside institution asks for your opinion—in writing—about promoting one of their quite-average faculty members. How do you proceed? Few, if any, have taken classes about this seemingly simple feat—communicating evaluations of our peers. Whether the subject in question …
