Association for Academic Surgery (AAS)

The Academic Surgeon - Official Blog of the AAS

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/ 

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Communicating Critical Evaluations— “Put it in Writing” or “Unwritten Code”

You are approached by a mediocre student, asking for a letter of recommendation for residency. Or an outside institution asks for your opinion—in writing—about promoting one of their quite-average faculty members. How do you proceed? Few, if any, have taken classes about this seemingly simple feat—communicating evaluations of our peers. Whether the subject in question […]

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Vote For Your AAS Leadership Today!

Thanks to everyone who made the trip to Jacksonville to join us for this amazing meeting! Our organization continues to grow and expand due to the outstanding support and volunteer efforts of AAS members.  Our committees have been busy at work throughout this meeting and it is their efforts that have made this year’s conference […]

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Thank you to our AAS Institutional Sponsors

As the Treasurer for the AAS, I would like to express our organization’s gratitude to our institutional sponsors. We have had a record breaking year with $206,000 raised as of this posting. The support provided allows the AAS and the ASC to continue to thrive in a time of decreasing support from industry. The sound […]

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The Rookie Advantage

I hope you all share my excitement for the approaching annual Academic Surgical Congress (ASC)! It has been a great honor to serve as the President of the AAS—an organization that I love. As I’ve reflected on our society and our membership in preparing my presidential address, I am once again inspired by the high […]

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Seeking self-nominations for JSR Acute Care Surgery Associate Editor

The Journal of Surgical Research (JSR) is accepting self-nominations for an Associate Editor (AE) with expertise in non-trauma acute care surgery, i.e. emergency general surgery and surgical critical care. The AE will perform the primary assessment of manuscripts submitted to the journal and make the determination as to whether manuscripts meet the standard for peer […]

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Report from the 2015 President-Elect

As AAS President-Elect, it has been my privilege to oversee the awards process as well as the Fall Courses this year. I wanted to take a minute to update the membership on these two important activities that are core to our mission. 2015 FALL COURSES The Fall Courses took place on Saturday, October 3, 2015 […]

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Surgery in the Aging Patient

Recently, I received a phone call from a community hospital about my grandmother’s care since my mom was out of town (NB. My grandma is 101!). She had been sent to the ER because she was coughing and her retirement home was worried that she might have aspirated part of her dinner. While my grandmother […]

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You Are What You Wear?

It is rare that an academic surgeon has an opportunity to write about something as lofty and important as dress. It is something that we often whisper about and sometimes talk about with colleagues, but usually in private settings and not on the podium at a scientific meeting. We all know that what you wear […]