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/
I recently learned a valuable lesson while dropping my daughter off at school about the importance of treating one another with compassion. As I entered the daycare, I realized that I had forgotten the code to sign her in for the day. When I write it, the forgetting looks small and insignificant. In the moment, …
Recently I was sitting in the audience of a scientific session at a surgical society meeting. I heard tons of new things, new take on old things and bunch of science fiction-esque results from basic science labs. Of all the insights I gained, one stood out. A junior resident from a university affiliated residency program …
Attention surgery RESIDENTS or FELLOWS in Cardiothoracic, Vascular, Orthopedics, Urology, Plastics and Otolaryngology: Funding Available for Registration for the Association for Academic Surgery (AAS) Fall Courses, immediately preceding the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress Apply to receive free registration to the: AAS Fall Courses – “30th Annual Fundamentals of Surgical Research Course & 15th Annual Early Career Development Course” …
The AAS/AASF Awards application period is coming to a close for this year’s Travel awards for Fall Courses, the 2020 ASC and 4 international conferences – don’t miss these great opportunities! Share this information with your colleagues! Closing Monday, July 29 (applications close at 11:59pm PST) AAS Fall Courses Travel Awards Ten travel awards are …
“Let me tell you what I wish I’d known, when I was young and dreamed of glory…you have no control who lives, who dies, who tells your story,” George Washington warns a young, scrappy, and hungry Alexander Hamilton near the end of Act One of “Hamilton.” Having just seen the musical for the third time …
Join the Tweetchat tomorrow – at #AWSchat, co-sponsored by The Association of Women Surgeons and the AAS – discussing the effects of #MeToo and #TimesUp in healthcare. Monday July 15th at 8 pm Eastern . The #MeToo movement, with its growing visibility over the last year, has brought to the forefront the near ubiquitous prevalence …
During a medical simulation, novice students have limited available working memory resources to learn new information.1 In addition, different elements of simulation-based medical education additively place a strain on students’ working memory by increasing their cognitive load, which competes with the information they are trying to learn (e.g., listening to faculty presentations + doubt and …
The mission of the Association for Academic Surgery (AAS) is to inspire and develop young academic surgeons. This focus was initially directed toward aspiring young surgeons here in the United States, but over the years, the mission of the AAS has become global in scope, crossing multiple borders in the pursuit of equipping the next …
As interest in global health continues to increase, many questions have been raised regarding the appropriateness of well-meaning but sometimes misguided attempts to help in underserved areas, particularly with short-term medical teams. The longer I’ve been involved in global health, the more I cringe when people talk about their trips like they have cured world …
All applications are now open for the 2019-2020 AAS/AASF Awards. We are pleased to offer several travel and research awards – click the links below to learn more and apply: Travel Awards: For the AAS Fall Courses – ten awards for resident/fellow/faculty applicants representing women and/or underrepresented minorities – award includes complimentary registration and a …