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/
The AAS Membership Committee presents the “Member Spotlight” – an opportunity to introduce you to a member of your association. Dr. Gutnik is an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Breast and Endocrine Surgery at The University of Alabama, Birmingham. She also serves as the Associate Vice Chair for Global Surgery and the …
Presenting the 2023 Essay Series and the launch of the 2024 Ethics Committee Art & Essay Festival The AAS Ethics Committee announces our 2024 Art and Essay Festival. Click HERE to learn more about this year’s event. And to celebrate its launch, we’re pleased to also begin a series of blogs showcasing our 2023 essay …
There is a disparity in the survival of minority patients diagnosed with cancer. Although there is a higher incidence of cancer among Caucasians, there is higher mortality of these same diseases in African Americans (1). Access to cancer screening and treatment may be at fault for this discrepancy in survival, but what about access to …
If you are anything like me, you tend to let unfamiliar acronyms scoot by your ears without internalizing what they mean until they directly affect you. When I was going through training, as somebody with career goals that were “more heavily clinical than research-oriented,” I let letters like K, R, NIDDK, AHRQ, DoD, and NCI …
With the AAS Fall Courses only a few short months away (October 21, 2023 in Boston), it’s a great time to strategize about getting the most out of attending a professional development opportunity. Often the first several years of your academic career can be a steep competition with young surgeons vying for opportunities for funding, …
The AAS Membership Committee presents the “Member Spotlight” – an opportunity to introduce you to a member of your association. Dr. Meizoso is an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Divisions of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, and Acute Care Surgery of the DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery at the University of Miami Leonard M. …
♦Part of the Assistant Professor Playbook Series I am terrible at giving feedback. Ask me to come back in the middle of the night to check on a patient? Sure. Start a redo-redo-low anterior resection at 4 pm? No problem. Rewrite an entire manuscript the day before revisions are due? You got it. Give feedback to …
The AAS Membership Committee presents the “Member Spotlight” – an opportunity to introduce you to a member of your association. Anai Kothari is the new Society of Asian Academic Surgeons Representative to the AAS! Dr. Kothari received his BS in Molecular Biology from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 2008 and his MD from …
Introduction Taking a project from inception to completion is a daunting process. When the goal of your research study is peer-reviewed publication, the process from submission to publication can take quite a while. In recent years, there has been a shift in the research community towards quicker distribution of research work. The most notable change …
Planning research time during surgical residency can be a stressful process. Tackling grant writing, mentorship meetings, conferences, and abstract deadlines while still rotating on busy clinical services as a junior resident can result in headaches and procrastination. During the months leading up to my two years of research, I received a lot of advice on …
