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 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 …
[Join us for this #AASChat on Tuesday evening, January 29th at 8:00pm Eastern] An estimated 40% of Americans make New Year’s resolutions; the most common focus on diet and exercise, sleep, and other health-related behaviors. In the setting of many demands and little time, surgeons may be particularly challenged to stick to their resolutions. Based …
Let me start out by saying that I am not a blogger. I don’t usually read blogs (except for the Academic Surgeon, of course), and I have never written a blog post. When I was preparing this one, I wondered how I would know what to do. So, I reverted back to my surgical training …
To be an academic surgeon doing high impact research, do you need another degree? The answer is a clear and obvious “no.” Yet here I am…proofreading, formatting, and preparing to defend my PhD thesis during my lab years before I return to residency as a PGY4. Have you thought about pursuing another degree? If you’re …
The AAS Committee on Academic Advancement (CAA) is pleased to present two new informational videos on the AAS website. As part of an initiative to create useful web content for AAS members on a variety of subjects relating to academic surgery, the CAA has created videos on two important topics: Negotiating Your First Job Re-Negotiating …
One of the goals of the Academic Advancement Committee is to create the structure and environment to promote surgeon mentoring, by establishing a mentoring program based on best practices that fosters and advances personal, professional, and organizational growth. In thinking about writing this blog, I thought about my own personal and professional growth over the …
