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/
Excited by the prospect of treating myself to bananas foster French toast (yes, you read that right) after a 12 mile run, I coaxed myself out of bed before 6:00am on a Saturday. Proud that I was actually out of the house before 7:30am, I was mentally congratulating myself for the first mile and dreaming …
As a transplant community, we have experienced record high organ transplant volumes for the past 5 years, surpassing 30,000 organs transplanted annually. However, the grossly mismatched supply-and-demand issue has forced transplant professionals to ‘push the envelope’ of innovation in efforts to transplant more patients with the same or less donors. This includes the use of …
We are pleased to present the members of the 2018 AAS Aspiring Leaders Development Program. These individuals will, over the course of their program year, engage with high-potential academic surgeons to develop and implement leadership competencies, supported with associated high quality mentorship, in order to impact personal, team and organizational goals. Our 2018 class and …
Congratulations to the five new Councilors who will be representing the classes of 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017. We look forward to their future leadership! Thank you to all the outstanding candidates who self nominated. There are many opportunities to get involved in the AAS, including the committee self nomination process that is currently …
It is undeniable that the #MeToo movement has forever altered how we think about gender. The medical field, and particularly male-dominated specialties like surgery, has found itself in the spotlight with eye catching headlines such as “#MeToo in medicine: Women, harassed in hospitals and operating rooms, await reckoning”.1 Prior to the #MeToo movement, I had …
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 …
