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/
Janie is seven and her life was saved by the research of two surgeons, one of who never met Janie (Dr. Stanley Dudrick) and one who we’re glad did (Dr. Mark Puder). She was born with intestinal atresia and underwent several operations and small bowel resections, which ultimately left her with a nonfunctional GI tract …
The Association for Surgical Education (ASE) is proud to recognize the recent 20th anniversary of the ASE Surgical Education Research Fellowship program (SERF). Under the expert previous leadership of Dr. Kimberly Schenarts PhD and now Dr. Maura Sullivan PhD, the SERF program is the ideal starting point for any AAS member who is considering a …
As the AAS representative to the Society of Black Academic Surgeons, let me take a moment to describe my role and the organization. This role is very important as is serves as a conduit for information between the two organizations and provides advocacy for the mission of each organization to the other. The Society of …
My parents, whose uncanny ability to predict my career path to this point is either prophetic or extremely manipulative, are probably the earliest influencers of my interest in Global Surgery. They’ve provided constant reminders of my obligation to serve the less fortunate here and abroad, specifically in Nigeria, our place of origin. Their promptings must …
Identifying the right primary mentor for your research program is one of the most important things you’ll do as a junior faculty member. Choosing the right person will help ensure ongoing success and productivity, while selecting a less effective may make things tough. I’ve heard more than one successful surgeon-scientist reflect that they “got lucky” …
Surgeons have been caring for children with appendicitis for over 100 years. Over time, we have gotten better at making this diagnosis. The old adage that you must have a 10% negative appendectomy rate in order not to miss any patients with appendicitis is no longer the current standard. Most contemporary quality collaboratives work hard …
Writing manuscripts is an essential component of any academic surgery career – “publish or perish” is a rule we all live by. While most of us physician-scientists spent years in science lectures and labs, very few of us have formal training in writing, and probably even less of us, formal training in negotiating the complex …
Challenge encourages development of novel and innovative ideas for publishing research in the field of surgery; deadline for proposals October 31, 2015 Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, has announced its first Surgical Specialties Innovation Challenge. As the number of surgical procedures increases annually, the need to look …
To begin talking about the clamor to use technology in our medical school clinical curricula, let’s start by talking about the predecessor to tablet computers, the humble sheet of white paper. It can be big or folded to fit in almost any pocket; edited by anyone with a computer, pen or pencil; lost; shredded to …
Why do certain medical students, residents and attendings outperform their peers? What competencies can surgeons develop besides technical ones? Emotional intelligence (EI or EQ) describes the ability to perceive, understand and manage one’s own and another person’s emotions [1]. The business world has long recognized EI as being meaningful and equally, if not more, important …
