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/
Have you Googled yourself lately? Do you know what your current web presence looks like? Odds are, even if you haven’t, your patients have. They know what your research is about, where you trained, and they know if you’ve had happy or unsatisfied patients who have taken their voice to the internet. “I truly wish …
The Association of Academic Surgeons (AAS) and the Society of University Surgeons (SUS) are pleased to announce the launch of the Third Volume of the Disease Control Priorities (DCP3), the premier text on global health, at the Academic Surgical Congress (ASC) in February 2015, in Las Vegas, Nevada. This 90 minute session, on February 5th …
The AAS Blog “The Academic Surgeon” celebrates its first year of existence, and in that time has made available dozens of articles, ideas and opinions to the AAS community. Created to help AAS keep a dynamic presence outside of its national meeting, the blog is our online digital forum for news, insight and discussion, including …
The path to becoming an academic surgeon is long and arduous. Years of intense study during undergraduate and medical school, followed by a 5-7 year residency and frequently fellowship training lead to a path that sets our profession apart from most others. While the volume of knowledge and experience gained during these formative years is …
In an editorial in the Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in 2006, Dr. O. Gordon Robinson, Jr. writes about an unsettling experience he had with a colleague. This colleague asked if he could observe a cleft lip procedure. When asked why, he replied that he wanted to know how to do this procedure, as …
The gender gap in the upper echelons of academic surgery is well recognized. Many factors likely contribute to the discrepancies between the proportions of women in surgical residency, junior academic positions, and leadership positions. One of these factors is the believed to be that women do not know how to negotiate. There is a vast …
The AAS Membership Committee is seeking self-nominations for the new position of INSTITUTIONAL REPRESENTATIVE. We are looking for 1 representative from each academic Department of Surgery to serve as a liaison to the AAS. Please submit a one-paragraph statement regarding your interest in the program and qualifications for the position by October 1, 2014. DESCRIPTION: …
The Academic Surgical Congress (ASC) in San Diego, California in February 2014 was a fantastic conference that was attended by over 800 members, with more than 75 international members. The growth and participation of both domestic academic global surgeons and the AAS international membership has steadily increased and influenced the dynamics of the program and …
There are 2 truisms about residents in training, compared to their faculty: 1) they are generally slower, and 2) they generally make more mistakes. But a third fact of resident education trumps the first two—it is the responsibility of academic surgery to graduate safe, competent general surgeons who can independently take care of patients. Thirty …
Dear Fellow Members of the AAS, It is my privilege to represent our organization at the American Board of Surgery (ABS). As many of you are aware, the major function of the ABS is to help protect the American public by providing an independent, nonprofit organization to provide board certification to surgeons who have met …
