Dear Colleague, It is our greatest pleasure to welcome you to the 2019 Academic Surgical Congress. To facilitate your networking, the AAS is once again implementing a Student/Trainee-Mentor Program this year. We would like to pair students/trainees and mentors of similar career/research interests and potentially guide students/trainees in their future career development. The student/trainee-mentor network […]
Resiliency in Surgery
‘These are the duties of a physician: First… to heal his mind and to give help himself before giving it to anyone else.’ ~Epitaph of an Athenian doctor, 2AD Resilience is that ineffable quality that allows some people to be knocked down by life and come back stronger than ever; the capacity to recover quickly […]
The 2014 AAS Fall Courses are quickly approaching!
An academic surgical career demands excellence in the areas of clinical practice, research and education. Piloting this challenge can be intimidating and stressful; it requires preparation along with a certain degree of compromise and balance. It is also exhilarating and rewarding. Both the Fundamentals of Surgical Research Course and the Career Development Course have annually […]