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/
The AAS Membership Committee’s “Membership Spotlight” series – each month in The Academic Surgeon and on the AAS homepage we will introduce you to a member of your association. Dr. Kristin L. Long is a fellowship-trained endocrine surgeon at the University of Wisconsin (UW) School of Medicine and Public Health with a special interest in …
When: Today, June 24, 2020 Time: 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM ET Register: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/7015925914473/WN_WrnXZAPMRIuqsdtIY11A0Q The Association for Academic Surgery (AAS) recognizes its obligation to address the lack of diversity within the academic surgical workforce. We believe tackling this problem is essential to attaining health equities as we strive to deliver care to an increasingly diverse …
For members of the LGBTQIA community, June is usually a month of parties, parades, and rainbow flags (OK, rainbow everything) all celebrating our culture and the important strides we have made towards societal acceptance. Pride Month has practically become a nationwide party enthusiastically embraced not only by queer people but by our straight friends and …
I wrote a different essay for this blog several weeks ago. But after the events of the past few weeks, that essay now seems irrelevant. In the midst of a national public healthcare crisis, a new crisis has emerged, one that is as much a threat -if not more so- to the wellbeing of our …
As a surgical oncologist, I have developed principles that helped me build a successful practice; provide excellent care to my patients; work and lead multidisciplinary teams; mentor medical students, residents, and fellows; expedite patient visits, and perform research and clinical trials. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has turned my world upside down. Every instinct I follow …
The AAS Membership Committee’s “Membership Spotlight” series – each month in The Academic Surgeon and on the AAS homepage we will introduce you to a member of your association. Dr. Joon K. Shim is a fellowship-trained minimally invasive and bariatric surgeon at Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine. As a full-time core faculty member, …
Dear AAS Members, On May 25, 2020, Mr. George Floyd lost his life in an unimaginable way. This event and so many others continue to highlight the ongoing and longstanding racial injustices across our nation and has left many of us feeling sad, angry, and unsure of how to move forward. All this while we …
Dear AAS members, Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, the Association for Academic Surgery will be offering our 2020 Fall Courses in an online, virtual format this year. We are disappointed that we cannot gather in person this year, but the committees and leaders who plan and organize these Courses are committed to embracing this …
At least once a week, when I get to the part in my informed consent discussion where I tell a person that they are at a teaching institution, someone gets a very concerned look in their eye and says something like, “But you’re the one holding the knife and actually doing my surgery? I don’t …
The spring of 2020 has brought forth unprecedented changes in the way we both live and work. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our daily lives and for most of us, upended our daily workflow. As a clinically busy endocrine surgeon with an academic focus on global surgery, all aspects of my work have been affected. …
