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/
You are approached by a mediocre student, asking for a letter of recommendation for residency. Or an outside institution asks for your opinion—in writing—about promoting one of their quite-average faculty members. How do you proceed? Few, if any, have taken classes about this seemingly simple feat—communicating evaluations of our peers. Whether the subject in question …
Thanks to everyone who made the trip to Jacksonville to join us for this amazing meeting! Our organization continues to grow and expand due to the outstanding support and volunteer efforts of AAS members. Our committees have been busy at work throughout this meeting and it is their efforts that have made this year’s conference …
As the Treasurer for the AAS, I would like to express our organization’s gratitude to our institutional sponsors. We have had a record breaking year with $206,000 raised as of this posting. The support provided allows the AAS and the ASC to continue to thrive in a time of decreasing support from industry. The sound …
I hope you all share my excitement for the approaching annual Academic Surgical Congress (ASC)! It has been a great honor to serve as the President of the AAS—an organization that I love. As I’ve reflected on our society and our membership in preparing my presidential address, I am once again inspired by the high …
The Journal of Surgical Research (JSR) is accepting self-nominations for an Associate Editor (AE) with expertise in non-trauma acute care surgery, i.e. emergency general surgery and surgical critical care. The AE will perform the primary assessment of manuscripts submitted to the journal and make the determination as to whether manuscripts meet the standard for peer …
As I look at outside – I can see the remnants of the recent snowfall in the northeast. The temperature reads a cool 24 degrees but in Jacksonville, FL (or JAX) apparently its 85º. I can’t wait for the new year! By the time this blog is uploaded, it will be just about a month …
As AAS President-Elect, it has been my privilege to oversee the awards process as well as the Fall Courses this year. I wanted to take a minute to update the membership on these two important activities that are core to our mission. 2015 FALL COURSES The Fall Courses took place on Saturday, October 3, 2015 …
Recently, I received a phone call from a community hospital about my grandmother’s care since my mom was out of town (NB. My grandma is 101!). She had been sent to the ER because she was coughing and her retirement home was worried that she might have aspirated part of her dinner. While my grandmother …
It is rare that an academic surgeon has an opportunity to write about something as lofty and important as dress. It is something that we often whisper about and sometimes talk about with colleagues, but usually in private settings and not on the podium at a scientific meeting. We all know that what you wear …
At first, sitting in a classroom with future teachers and teacher educators was strange. I had just finished two years of clinical training, and rather than being in the operating room, I was discussing how important toy blocks and play “occupations” are in kindergarten and educational development.1 I struggled to grasp how this would make …
