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/
As a fourth-year medical student on the general surgery interview trail, I am frequently asked, “Where do you think your niche will be in the future?” This question extends beyond my clinical interests and fellowship aspirations. Because I am applying to academic programs, explaining future intentions also involves identifying the area of academic surgery in …
There has been a fair amount of attention to healthcare providers’ use of social media over the past few years. Wanting to establish clear expectations from physicians and students, several professional societies have released guidelines on the use of healthcare social media (#hcsm). The main theme amongst these guidelines instructs physicians to maintain a separation …
Darwin’s theory of evolution represents one of the landmark intellectual revolutions of human history. He proposed that organisms change over time as a result of changes in heritable traits. A closer look at the evolution of vascular surgery during the past fifty years makes one believe that Darwin’s theory of natural selection is truly applicable …
The Advance Program is now available on the AAS website for the 9th Annual Academic Surgical Congress, to be held February 4-6, 2014 in San Diego, California. This program contains the At-A-Glance overview for the Congress, as well as information on pre-Congress courses. Additional information on registration and lodging are also available. The deadline for …
Social media has come to play a growing role at national conferences, serving not only as a convenient vehicle for information dissemination, but also as a forum for idea sharing and discourse. This year’s AWS and ACS meetings featured a significantly increased Twitter presence, with tweets from @AmCollSurgeons and @WomenSurgeons as well as several Twitter …
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 …
