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/
We spend a significant amount of time focusing on the mentee-mentor relationship within academic surgery. This focus is justified considering the relationship is often forged during the fires of our surgical training and provides us with guidance and unrivaled altruism that defines our early career paths. While many of us have surgeons we look to …
Not too long ago I was an eager general surgery resident seeking out research opportunities anywhere I could get them. A minority of residents around me sought basic science opportunities, but most of us picked the “easier” route, a.k.a. clinical research. This referred, at that time, to a sprinkling of case series, small to medium …
As a new member of the Membership Committee, I had the pleasure of approaching members at the Academic Surgical Congress (ASC) to ask them why they joined the Association for Academic Surgery (AAS). While the answers were diverse, three themes were common during my conversations with AAS members: 1. Research Mentorship- The Village Neighbor The …
You may be saying to yourself, what exactly is code-switching and why should a surgeon care? Code-switching is a linguistic term that applies when a speaker, who is multilingual, switches between two or more languages or dialects within the context of a single conversation.1 Code –switching can happen without the cognitive awareness of the user …
The Journal of Surgical Research (JSR) is currently accepting applications for Associate Editor (AE) for the Gastrointestinal Surgery section of the journal. The GI Associate Editor typically handles approximately six articles per week, performing the primary assessment of manuscripts submitted to the journal and making the determination as to whether manuscripts meet the standard for …
The AAS would like to congratulate all the new committee chairs and representatives that make up our leadership! Please see below for the new appointments. Basic & Translational Science Committee Chair – Vikas Dudeja, MD Committee on Academic Advancement Co-Chair – Dawn Coleman, MD Committee on Technology & Communications Co-Chair – Drew Shirley, MD Education …
Join the March #AASchat on Tuesday, March 26th @ 8pmEST A successful mentor-mentee relationship is paramount to promote young trainees aspiring to become productive academic surgeons and to advance the career of the mentors as well. The literature is rich in articles delineating the qualities of effective mentors but is deficient when it comes to …
During the 14th Annual Academic Surgical Congress (ASC) in Houston, new AAS officers were elected to lead the society. Congratulations to Dr. Eugene Kim, who was elected President-Elect, Dr. Carrie Lubitz, who was elected Recorder, and Dr. Hari Nathan, who was elected Treasurer. All are outstanding candidates and we look forward to their future leadership. …
Associate Editor for Methodology, Informatics, and Topical Reviews We are pleased to announce that David Schneider, MD, MS, has been selected to serve as the new Associate Editor for the Methodology, Informatics, and Topical Reviews submissions to the Journal of Surgical Research. Dr. Schneider is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Wisconsin …
In the fall of 2013, during my two-year research fellowship in the middle of my clinical training, I went back to school. I had been accepted to the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, where I would join the prestigious Health Care Management program. Pretty much everyone – my soon-to-be husband, my …
