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/
It is that time of year again… the time to give thought to the question, “Are you going into the lab?” Finding a research opportunity or lab has been discussed previously in this forum and is often coupled with discussions on mentorship. Traditionally, taking time to do research has involved joining a faculty member’s basic …
Attention Early Career Vascular and Orthopedic Surgeons Funding Available for Association for Academic Surgery (AAS) Courses & Meeting Apply to receive free registration to the: AAS Fall Courses – “29 th Annual Fundamentals of Surgical Research Course & 14th Annual Early Career Development Course” October 20, 2018 in Boston, MA and 2019 Academic Surgical Congress February 5-7, 2019 in …
Surgery is one of the vital components of the global health, as the president of the World Bank said, “Surgery is an indivisible, indispensable part of health care and of progress towards universal health coverage” (Kim, 2014). Global surgical research is one of the major aspects that play an important role in improving the surgical …
The American College of Surgeons announces the following research awards for U.S. and Canadian members: George H.A. Clowes, Jr., MD, FACS Memorial Research Career Development Award Five-year scholarship providing $45,000 per year in support of the research of a promising young general surgeon. K08 or K23 NIH track candidates preferred. http://www.facs.org/memberservices/acsclowes.html Application deadline 1 August …
Join in our upcoming Tweetchat in partnership with Association of Academic Surgery (AAS) on Monday, April 23, 8 pm ET. To participate, be sure to follow the moderators for this chat, Drs. Christian Jones (@jonessurgery) of AAS (@AcademicSurgery) and Michaela West (@MichaelaWst) of the Association of Women Surgeons (AWS). Please tag all of your tweets with the hashtag #AASAWSChat. DIVERSITY Diversity …
Apply to receive free registration to the: AAS Fall Courses – “29th Annual Fundamentals of Surgical Research Course & 14th Annual Early Career Development Course” October 20, 2018, in Boston, MA and 2019 Academic Surgical Congress – Feb 5-7, 2019, in Houston, TX Two early-career academic surgeons from each discipline will be selected. Note that …
With apologies to those of you who dislike sports analogies, this past week in college basketball provided an excellent parallel for what we do every day—and critical lessons to keep our emotional and mental health in a place where we can continue to try to help patients. As many know, for the first time in …
Just before starting residency, I watched the birth of my first son. On the cusp of starting a surgical internship my life was filled with excitement, chaos and a little bit of fear. Confident and naïve, I did not spend much time considering the role my career choice was going to play on the father …
As I read through the current issues of the surgical literature, familiar themes continue to permeate the pages. Two themes represent much of the research we as academic surgeons devote a significant amount of time to designing, conducting, and publishing. The first goes something like this: “A study of ABC clinical problem in the LMNOP …
Surgical training is particularly rough on pregnant residents. This was made very clear in a recent study of women who were pregnant during surgical residency, which found that 39% of women surveyed considered leaving residency and 30% would advise female medical students against pursuing a surgical career.1 With so much focus on retaining and promoting …
