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/
As the lyrics to the Doors song say, “Strange days have found us. Strange days have tracked us down.” Indeed, we live in crazy, scary times. Nearly every night, the lead news story is about global terrorism, domestic mass shootings, gun violence of one sort or another, or our current social and political landscape that …
Although not directly related to civilian global health, our national efforts in saving the lives of our American Heroes fighting in remote and austere locations around the globe should not go unrecognized by our global surgical community. In much the same way we as military trauma surgeons attempt to translate lessons to civilian trauma care …
Grant Applications are due August 29, 2016 Past AWSF/Ethicon, Inc. Fellowship grants have supported women surgeons by funding original research in a variety of topics, including the following: 2016: Analysis of circulationg exosomal RNA profiles in Melanoma. 2015: Teaching Palliative Care Communication Skills Following Surgical Emergencies. 2014: Clinical Trial on the efficacy of sacral neuromodulation with …
As a resident surgeon I have found great solidarity and pride in the recently popularized #ILookLikeASurgeon hashtag. Online I witnessed women surgeons across the nation and the world display their achievements and at this year’s Academic Surgical Congress I met many of the women behind the #ILookLikeASurgeon posts. Yet despite these positive experiences, I see …
More often than not, traumatic injuries result from preventable events that claim 5.8 million lives worldwide annually. These events can conceivably happen anywhere, but only by analyzing them within the greater context of a society’s economic structure can one begin to disentangle chance from circumstance. It is well established that trauma in low- and middle-income …
This blog submission will be the first of 2 submissions highlighting the experience of Dr. Sherif Emil, Division Director of Pediatric Surgery at the Montreal Children’s Hospital in Montreal Canada. This is where I completed my Pediatric Surgery fellowship training and developed, under his and Dr. Dan Poenaru’s mentorship, an interest and love for the …
Below please find information on several American College of Surgeons Awards: George H.A. Clowes, Jr., MD, FACS Memorial Research Career Development Award – This research award for a young academic general surgeon provides $45,000 per year for each of five years. Preference will be given to applicants who are working towards an NIH K08 or …
One of my favorite questions I get asked by current and potential members in the AAS is “How can I get involved in this society?” I love this question. I love it especially because in the past ten years that I have been working with the AAS, nine of which as its Executive Director, I …
To start, a disclaimer: I am not an expert in time management. In fact, I am a serial procrastinator. Somehow, I have been able to function and achieve a modicum of success in spite of this. I often justify my procrastination with the excuses “I do my best work under pressure” and “I work best …
There’s a young man in green scrubs running from the hospital. He’s running along the sidewalk, focused look on his face. He’s not trying to keep the stethoscope in his pocket from flopping around, and he’s not trying to run away from anything; he’s not looking over his shoulder, he’s not looking around to see …
