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/
After many grueling years of surgical training, which included five years of General Surgery residency, three years of clinical and basic science research, and two years of clinical fellowship, I was ecstatic to be finally done with my training. I have finally become a “grown-up.” However, little did I realize that being on the other …
I decided to become a doctor at the age of 12, while my family was spending the summer in the Philippines. My young mind could not grasp how and why so many children died of communicable diseases that were easily treated back home. I couldn’t comprehend growing up in a place where there just weren’t …
AAS Members: This past few months have been a challenging time for many of our colleagues across the country as they have had to deal with mass trauma and severe weather which has shown the complexities and challenges of providing surgical care in these types of situations. While not all of our members have been …
The AAS is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2nd Annual AAS Young Investigator Award. The award is designed to engage academic Cardiothoracic and ENT surgeons with the AAS. The award includes complimentary registration to both the Fall Courses taking place on October 21, 2017 in San Diego, CA and the Academic Surgical Congress taking …
Evie Carchman, MD: As a junior faculty member having never mentored a general surgery resident in the lab before, there have been several lessons that my mentee and I have learned over the last year. We share these trials and tribulations to enforce the lack of formal training on how to be a mentor or …
On July 1st, 2017, the World Bank published its annual update of the World Development Indicators (WDI). From fishing to farming, education to employment, these indicators track progress in a wide variety of forms over regions, nations, and time. This year marks the second time surgical data has been included in the World Bank’s indicators. …
From January, 1909, through April, 1910, Abraham Flexner1 traveled throughout the United States and Canada on a trip that revolutionized North American medical education. He visited every one of the existing 155 medical schools and, by the end of 1910, had published his report detailing the resources and practices of all these schools.2 Startlingly, he …
I never thought I was going to be the attending who started off a sentence with “when I was a student/resident…” But one day, I realized, I had become that person. It was not to prove that I worked harder checking labs or rounding on my patients. It was in a different context. I was …
We all remember our first experiences seeing patients during medical school and wondering “Am I doing this right?” During medical school hours upon hours were spent buried in books, journals, and occasionally attending lectures, to build a base of knowledge that would allow us the privilege of providing care to patients once in the clerkships. …
I’ve been thinking a lot about death. No, I’m no more depressed than usual, and I’d tell you if I were. I’m thinking about death in the Atul Gawande Being Mortal way, the way Shoshana Berger writes so eloquently about in an outstanding essay. Palliative medicine, I’m hoping beyond hope, is finally starting to make …
