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/
It’s been several weeks now and I am starting to get reaccustomed to the sparkling floors, giant-sized beds with a million buttons, T.V. sets in the ICU rooms and the ease of ordering labs, imaging studies and simply transfusing blood products without a family member to donate. But I am back. After all, this is …
An academic surgical career demands excellence in the areas of clinical practice, research and education. Piloting this challenge can be intimidating and stressful; it requires preparation along with a certain degree of compromise and balance. It is also exhilarating and rewarding. Both the Fundamentals of Surgical Research Course and the Career Development Course have annually …
A recent editorial published in the Journal of the American Medical Association reports on the proceedings of The Institute of Medicine’s Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education Workshop. The insights developed from this group of 59 members highlighted the need for a social contract between health care professionals and society. A social contract …
Approximately 3 years ago I was given the honor by the AAS to serve as the liaison to the ACS Board of Governors. Like many of you I am a fellow of the ACS, but really didn’t understand it’s hierarchy or what the Board of Governors was, prior to this appointment. Over the past two …
April 10-12, 2014 was the Annual Meeting of the Association for Surgical Education (ASE). This meeting brings together those with a significant interest in surgical education, and the highlight of the ASE meeting is always the level of scholarship that is now being brought to the field of surgical education research. As someone who has …
Since the introduction of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) in 1994 and its subsequent adoption in both the academic and private sectors through the early 2000’s, academic surgeons have been interested in understanding the quality and utility of data collected by the program. High caliber quality metrics are important for a number of …
Last October, the Association for Academic Surgery (AAS) launched its first blog, joining many other surgical organizations in the adoption of social media tools. These tools are not new, but they remind us of the lessons of transparency. I began blogging in 1997, the year the term “web log” was used by John Barger to …
As a medical student, my goal is to figure out what specialty I want to pursue and where I want to take my career. To accomplish this I am attempting to get exposed to as many things related to medicine as possible. On that note, I had the pleasure of attending the Academic Surgical Congress, …
In addition to the winners we announced in our January 2nd post, several additional awards were presented by the AAS at the recent 2014 Academic Surgical Congress. Congratulations to all the winners! If you would like to review any of the abstracts listed below, you can find them on the 2014 Abstract Archive on the …
Last week, AAS President-Elect Justin Dimick posed a question to the AAS Twitter Community: To surgery residents: What do the best faculty teachers do in the OR to help you learn? i.e., best practices? @AmaliaCochranMD @DHBBaylorMed — Justin B. Dimick (@jdimick1) February 21, 2014 The question was posed after several faculty (@jdimick1, @AmaliaCochranMD, @DHBBaylorMed) discussed …
