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/
Although Uganda’s yearly mango season will come to an end this month, its legacy will last even longer. Hospital wards across the country will remain packed with injured patients even after the towering trees no longer yield fruit. Residents of the eastern town of Soroti, for instance, are all too familiar with a classic story: …
Upon returning from my frequent short-term surgical mission experiences, I am commonly asked, “How was your trip??” A frequent response is usually…”It was overwhelming….” A sentiment used to describe the feelings of encountering hundreds of patients, some in the most desperate situations imaginable, some so far beyond help by basic medical care that it breaks …
“I am a medical student. I want to do research but I just don’t know how or where to start” We have all heard this far too many times from enthusiastic students interested in pursuing research during medical school. While a majority of medical students are interested in research, very few are able to pursue …
The Association of Academic Surgery is gearing up for the Fundamentals of Surgical Research (FSRC) and the Early Career Development Courses (ECDC). This year, the Fall Courses will be held on October 20th the Saturday before the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress at the Sheraton Boston Hotel. The two courses will be held in parallel …
Burnout can be defined as “a syndrome of emotional exhaustion and depersonalization that leads to decreased effectiveness at work”.1 The concept of burnout in academic surgery has been recognized for well over a decade, with several notable studies drawing attention to the rising incidence. A survey of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) in 2008 …
There is something obvious and critical that I have come to realize through the opportunities I have had to live and travel for work and play in LMICs… relationships matter more than anything else we accomplish. Of course, we all say we believe that “actions speak louder than words.” But what does it take to …
Prepare On a warm spring evening in a New York City public hospital, the slow pace of a Sunday call shift was interrupted when the in-hospital trauma notification system chirped out the details of a patient in transit, “This is a Level 1 notification, 28 year old male multiple GSW to the chest en route …
Surgeons are by nature investigators. Even those who do not actively seek research opportunities find that they often need to explore new methods in the operating room based on a patient’s individual circumstances. They make a scientific question, hypothesize (that their proposed solution in the operating room will benefit the patient), implement their hypothesis, make …
I was on my way to work on Friday June 8th, had just closed and locked the front door to my house, and was walking to my car when a notification from one of my phone’s news apps stopped me in my tracks. Anthony Bourdain was dead at the age of 61 and had committed …
