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/
There has been slow attrition of surgeons from basic and translational science. Although external environmental pressures such as lack of funding, need for clinical productivity, and administrative duties play a significant role in this decline, there is also a lack of faith in our ability to succeed in the current environment1,2. Only 32% of surgical …
Recently while scrolling through my Twitter feed, I ran across an article on Senator Tammy Duckworth1. I can’t help but admire her tenacity and the sacrifices she has made for our country, plus I was intrigued by the headline that described her having a baby at age 50. The article describes how Duckworth spent her …
Here is a list of tips for writing a training research grant applications, such as the post-doctoral F32 fellowship: Pick the right funding agency. Certain funding agencies have higher paylines, more money available for postdoctoral fellows (you are one of these because you have an MD), or simply appreciate your research more than others would. …
Two AAS Committees are pleased to present informational videos on the AAS website. As part of an initiative to create useful web content for AAS members on a variety of subjects relating to academic surgery, the AAS Leadership Committee and the AAS Global Affairs Committee have produced videos on two great topics: Time Management Tips …
Excited by the prospect of treating myself to bananas foster French toast (yes, you read that right) after a 12 mile run, I coaxed myself out of bed before 6:00am on a Saturday. Proud that I was actually out of the house before 7:30am, I was mentally congratulating myself for the first mile and dreaming …
As a transplant community, we have experienced record high organ transplant volumes for the past 5 years, surpassing 30,000 organs transplanted annually. However, the grossly mismatched supply-and-demand issue has forced transplant professionals to ‘push the envelope’ of innovation in efforts to transplant more patients with the same or less donors. This includes the use of …
We are pleased to present the members of the 2018 AAS Aspiring Leaders Development Program. These individuals will, over the course of their program year, engage with high-potential academic surgeons to develop and implement leadership competencies, supported with associated high quality mentorship, in order to impact personal, team and organizational goals. Our 2018 class and …
Congratulations to the five new Councilors who will be representing the classes of 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017. We look forward to their future leadership! Thank you to all the outstanding candidates who self nominated. There are many opportunities to get involved in the AAS, including the committee self nomination process that is currently …
It is undeniable that the #MeToo movement has forever altered how we think about gender. The medical field, and particularly male-dominated specialties like surgery, has found itself in the spotlight with eye catching headlines such as “#MeToo in medicine: Women, harassed in hospitals and operating rooms, await reckoning”.1 Prior to the #MeToo movement, I had …
Although Uganda’s yearly mango season will come to an end this month, its legacy will last even longer. Hospital wards across the country will remain packed with injured patients even after the towering trees no longer yield fruit. Residents of the eastern town of Soroti, for instance, are all too familiar with a classic story: …
