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/
After five to ten years of postgraduate residency and fellowship training, it’s been a while since your job has been decided by anything other than a computer matching algorithm and luck. So the opportunity to choose your first faculty job deserves a great deal of careful thought and planning. These are reflections on my process, …
If you attended the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress this October, you might have overheard this, or seen a woman wearing bright tangerine colored glasses without lenses. That was me at the Social Media booth in the exhibit hall, demonstrating Google Glass to a curious group after an invitation from the ACS Committee on …
Recently my fellow residents and I attended the AAS Fall Courses. The air in the DC hotel conference room was thick with the ambition of residents, fellows, and young faculty. To my fellow residents and I, the unofficial theme of the conference was: “Be excellent. Be excellent in all ways as soon as possible.” The …
The AAS Presidential Session at the 2014 Academic Surgical Congress (ASC) in San Diego, CA will feature TED-style talks on topics related to Innovation in Surgery. It will be a dynamic session with world renowned speakers discussing how changes in health care delivery and policy require innovative methods for answering important clinical questions, how bench …
Surgeons are often on the front-line of innovation because our clinical background and hands-on use of medical devices allows us to clearly see the shortcomings of existing technology. Whether it is a stapler misfire, an awkward laparoscopic instrument, or a suboptimal bioprosthesis, as the “end-user,” the surgeon is often the first to recognize emerging problems …
Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Dr. John Birkmeyer, Director of the University of Michigan‘s Center for Healthcare Outcomes and Policy, and lead author of a landmark study of surgical skill and outcomes recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Among other things, we discussed the motivation of the study, …
Sure, you’re a medical student who is interested in a career in surgery. You hear people talk about “academic surgery,” but you’re not entirely certain what that means. More importantly, why should you consider academic surgery as a career? Historical Academic Surgery vs. Academic Surgery Today The historic academic surgeon shows little similarity to the …
As technology and social media have become an ever-important method for networking and dissemination of science, we as a society must leverage digital media in order to best serve our community. The digital world represents a tremendous opportunity to improve the AAS membership’s ability to network but in order to do so we must keep a dynamic presence outside the confines of our national meeting.
