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/
If you are anything like me, you tend to let unfamiliar acronyms scoot by your ears without internalizing what they mean until they directly affect you. When I was going through training, as somebody with career goals that were “more heavily clinical than research-oriented,” I let letters like K, R, NIDDK, AHRQ, DoD, and NCI …
With the AAS Fall Courses only a few short months away (October 21, 2023 in Boston), it’s a great time to strategize about getting the most out of attending a professional development opportunity. Often the first several years of your academic career can be a steep competition with young surgeons vying for opportunities for funding, …
The AAS Membership Committee presents the “Member Spotlight” – an opportunity to introduce you to a member of your association. Dr. Meizoso is an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Divisions of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, and Acute Care Surgery of the DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery at the University of Miami Leonard M. …
♦Part of the Assistant Professor Playbook Series I am terrible at giving feedback. Ask me to come back in the middle of the night to check on a patient? Sure. Start a redo-redo-low anterior resection at 4 pm? No problem. Rewrite an entire manuscript the day before revisions are due? You got it. Give feedback to …
The AAS Membership Committee presents the “Member Spotlight” – an opportunity to introduce you to a member of your association. Anai Kothari is the new Society of Asian Academic Surgeons Representative to the AAS! Dr. Kothari received his BS in Molecular Biology from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 2008 and his MD from …
Introduction Taking a project from inception to completion is a daunting process. When the goal of your research study is peer-reviewed publication, the process from submission to publication can take quite a while. In recent years, there has been a shift in the research community towards quicker distribution of research work. The most notable change …
Planning research time during surgical residency can be a stressful process. Tackling grant writing, mentorship meetings, conferences, and abstract deadlines while still rotating on busy clinical services as a junior resident can result in headaches and procrastination. During the months leading up to my two years of research, I received a lot of advice on …
Join us on Wednesday, March 29th at 9 PM ET on Twitter @AcademicSurgery. On this month’s #AASChat led by Reagan Collins (@ReaganACollins) and Dr. Alexander Hawkins (@alexhawkinsmd) we’ll be discussing Student Engagement in Surgical Professional Societies. A few questions that will direct the conversation will include: Question 1: Why get involved with surgical societies as …
Anne MacDonald (undergraduate Pre-Med student at Boston College) Taylor Coe, MD (General Surgery Resident at Mass General Hospital) Sienna Li, BS (Harvard Medical Student) Eleonore Baughan, BS (Dartmouth Medical Student) Lakshmi Atthota, MBBS (General Surgery Resident at Maimonides and Transplant Research Fellow at Mass General Hospital) Teresia M Perkins (Clinical Research Coordinator at Brigham and …
Dr. Nancy Ascher is a transplant surgeon at the University of California San Francisco and the first woman to perform a liver transplant. She has served on the Presidential Task Force on Organ Transplantation, Surgeon General’s Task Force on Increasing Donor Organs, and Secretary of Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation and …
