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 health care reform marches on, there is continued pressure to deliver care for lower-cost and higher quality in order to provide more value. With smart phone technology becoming ubiquitous in the general population, leveraging this patient owned resource has become the focus of both large Silicon Valley-based corporations as well as independent technology entrepreneurs. …
What goes around comes around. I did my general surgery residency at Northwestern University in Chicago, IL. Looking back I can see how hard they worked to systematically try to educate us inside and outside of the operating room; especially outside. I remember feeling that the mandatory lectures and skill sessions were detracting from my …
The Association for Surgical Education is excited to announce a new initiative to improve surgical skills in medical students who are transitioning to a surgical residency program. This curriculum was produced with the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and is a new modular simulation-based surgical skills curriculum that includes supply lists, learning objectives, instructions, expert …
As the representative to the American Board of Surgery from the AAS, I have a bidirectional responsibility to share information between our two organizations. One event at the ABS that has great implications for the Academic Surgeon and our field more broadly is the discussion underway at the ABS and in our field more broadly …
One hundred years after Flexner’s recommendations on medical school structure, many schools are re-examining their curricula, some of which is summarized in a recent Carnegie report [1]. Many are moving toward integrated curricula, which have been implemented in parts of various schools (e.g., Harvard, UCSF) and for all students at the University of South Dakota …
The AAS and AAS Foundation sponsor several travel, research and presentation awards in conjunction with the annual Academic Surgical Congress. For the 2015 ASC, the following awards were announced and presented during the awards ceremony: Global Surgery Research Fellowship Award – this award is designed for individuals who are interested in advancing the field of …
The Academic Surgical Congress (ASC) in Las Vegas, Nevada in February 2015 was a fantastic conference that was attended by over 1000 members, with more than 85 international members. The growth and participation of both domestic Academic Global Surgeons and the AAS international membership has steadily increased and influenced the dynamics of the program and …
As the AAS Representatives to the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC), we would like to remind all AAS members of some of the resources provided through the AAMC. As many of you know, the AAMC represents all accredited medical schools (141 in US, 17 in Canada), major teaching hospitals and health systems, VA Medical …
The Academic Surgical Congress is right around the corner. Hopefully many of you are planning to join us February 3-5, 2015 at the Encore Las Vegas for what we hope will be the best ASC yet. The program has been condensed to allow for travel on Thursday evening with the program wrapping up by 3:30pm, …
Over the past year, the Membership committee has been busy evaluating our current membership trends and developing a strategic action plan to energize recruitment of new members and retention of current members. This year our total number of members increased again to 2855 members (a 3% increase from 2013), with a stable number of active …
