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 meet the patient for the first time and ask them to tell us the story of what brings them to see a doctor. From their story emerges the history of present illness. We supplement it with additional tests and studies. Ultimately we arrive to the diagnosis and the treatment plan. Our job as clinicians …
My four-year old rarely give me any good advice, but I was quite impressed by the Academy Award-winning Pixar film “Inside Out.” The story is based on the concept of “core memories” and how memories shape personalities, emotions and behaviors. Portrayed as glowing blue orbs, these core memories thoroughly affect a young girl’s move to …
“We have been offering the Asian nations the wrong kind of help. We have so lost sight of our own past that we are trying to sell guns and money alone, instead of remembering that it was the quest for dignity of freedom that was responsible for our own way of life.” The Ugly American …
Rise of Twitter in Surgery: It’s no secret that there is a growing community of medical students, surgeons-in-training, and surgeons on Twitter. Many use Twitter and other social media to keep up on news, connect with colleagues, and access the latest medical innovations and data, or promote their own research. But Twitter can also be …
At this year’s ASC meeting, the Education Committee presented an informative session entitled “Academic Success in Surgery: What Does It Really Take?” During that session, Allan Goldstein, MD, posited that one of the key challenges to growing or maintaining a successful basic science effort is obtaining extramural funding. Well, spring has sprung! For residents and …
It is a great honor to serve as the 49th President of the Association for Academic Surgery (AAS)! Thank you for entrusting me to lead this incredible society. Tim Pawlik, Justin Dimick and I met at the beginning of Tim’s presidency to lay out a 3-year approach that would allow increased continuity in our strategic …
Humor me for a moment and close your eyes—seriously. No matter where you are in your medical training or practice, try envisioning yourself before the responsibility of being an attending, before the years of medical training, before the decade of education, and ask yourself two simple questions. Are you the person you were before all …
Over the past few decades creating a work-life balance has become a greater priority for physicians. Numerous studies have shown that quality of life is a strong factor in medical student career choices. Quality of life concerns may also affect entry into academic medicine. Besides our clinical goals we have chosen a career in academic …
All emergency responses start the same way; with a phone call asking for help. One evening at 7:23pm in Cuenca, Ecuador, victims of a motor vehicle collision called into ECU 911, the new nationwide unified emergency response system. As an M1 observer from VCU School of Medicine, I listened in to this call alongside a …
We are pleased to announce that Jose Trevino, MD, has been selected to serve as the new Associate Editor for the Gastrointestinal Surgery section of the Journal of Surgical Research. Dr. Trevino is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville. He is fellowship-trained in surgical oncology and …
