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/
From the AAS Ethics Committee’s 2021 Artwork and Essay Contest, five artists donated their work to our Online Auction, raising funds for the Henri Ford Junior Faculty Research Award. This week we showcase the artists and their work. About the Art: Critical Capacity – This image depicts the mental and physical exhaustion felt …
From the AAS Ethics Committee’s 2021 Artwork and Essay Contest, five artists donated their work to our Online Auction, raising funds for the Henri Ford Junior Faculty Research Award. This week we showcase the artists and their work. About the Art: This painting illustrates the many emotions patient’s experience when they have COVID. …
From the AAS Ethics Committee’s 2021 Artwork and Essay Contest, five artists donated their work to our Online Auction, raising funds for the Henri Ford Junior Faculty Research Award. This week we showcase the artists and their work. About the Art: Do No Harm – A central tenet of medicine is “Do No …
From the AAS Ethics Committee’s 2021 Artwork and Essay Contest, five artists donated their work to our Online Auction, raising funds for the Henri Ford Junior Faculty Research Award. This week we showcase the artists and their work. About the Art: Two Americas – We live in two Americas. One where, when I …
From the AAS Ethics Committee’s 2021 Artwork and Essay Contest, five artists donated their work to our Online Auction, raising funds for the Henri Ford Junior Faculty Research Award. This week we showcase the artists and their work. About the Art: Angel of Death – I was pregnant during the COVID pandemic and …
Following suit after an AAS blog post from another former Vanderbilt General Surgery Residency graduate,1 I decided to base this post on what we call a “Tarpism.” Tarpisms are phrases stated (and often repeated) by former Vanderbilt General Surgery program director and poignant advice giver, Dr. John Tarpley. This one, in particular, has been on …
I can hear her giggling on the other side of the living room door as I turn my key. I open the door and she smiles as big as she can and runs over to me at full speed. I pick her up, hold her close and spin her in circles. Then I shower my …
Each month, the AAS Membership Committee presents the “Member Spotlight” – an opportunity to introduce you to a member of your association. Dr. Ben James is the Chief of the Section of Endocrine Surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Assistant Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. He also …
Join us Wednesday, July 27th at 8 PM ET on Twitter @AcademicSurgery. Our popular #AASChat series continues this month, led by Drs. Purvi Patel (@pppatelmd) and Chandler Cortina (@chandlercortina). The topic of discussion will be Promotion, and the chat questions that will direct the conversation will include: Question 1: When should you start thinking about …
Identifying sources of research funding is a core task for every surgeon-scientist. However, none of us are ever systematically taught about ways to achieve this critical goal. The blog post will provide a general outline of funding sources for surgeons in the early stage of their academic career and a few core pearls learned from …
