🗣️🗣️Join us on Sunday, Aug 18th as Dr. Patricia Turner, Executive Director & CEO of American College of Surgeons & our past president, discusses how to maximize opportunities at academic conferences, such as the SBAS Annual Meeting. Register below! Don’t miss this👇🏾 forms.gle/wPzw47zNw9mDyp…

Let's explore the intersections between surgery, ancestry, SES, and SDoH! Register to join us for our first National SRS Research Seminar hosted in conjunction with the UAB Socially Responsible Surgery with guests Sasha Still MD and Dr. Andrea Gillis

Calling all medical students! Register for our #SAASips on August 15th 6pm PST/ 8pm CST/ 9pm EST, with panelists Jessica Zagory, MD, Monica Dua, Tejas Sathe, Devashish Joshi, MD on strategies for putting together a compelling ERAS applications! Register:  mcwisc.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9E…

#AJSChat Q6 Leah Winer ☮️ 🟦, Dr. Polina Zmijewski, Danielle Wilson, Rana Higgins MD: How can we engage allies across genders and at various levels of training/leadership to improve trainee operative experiences? AmJSurgery AJS Student and Resident Scholar (STARS) Committee #heforshe #ilooklikeasurgeon

Amy VanderStoep Leah Winer ☮️ 🟦 Dr. Polina Zmijewski Danielle Wilson AmJSurgery AJS Student and Resident Scholar (STARS) Committee #AJSChat Q6 This engagement has to come from the residency program and executive leadership of the department. Educating leaders about these issues improves awareness and reinforces the standards that should be set by the department. #AJSchat AJS Student and Resident Scholar (STARS) Committee AmJSurgery

Amy VanderStoep Dr. Polina Zmijewski Danielle Wilson Rana Higgins MD AmJSurgery AJS Student and Resident Scholar (STARS) Committee #AJSChat A6 The sooner we recognize legitimacy of bias, the better off #SurgEd will be for all. Faculty must advocate & depts should implement programs to support residents. Trainings, grand rounds or townhalls can generate discussion & build allyship @ajs_star AmJSurgery

Amy VanderStoep Leah Winer ☮️ 🟦 Danielle Wilson Rana Higgins MD AmJSurgery AJS Student and Resident Scholar (STARS) Committee #AJSChat Q6 Sharing stories is the best way to engage and find common ground! Understanding the importance of educational equity, bias training, faculty and resident diversity, and elimination of barriers (reproductive and otherwise) as our common goal! AJS Student and Resident Scholar (STARS) Committee AmJSurgery

#AJSChat Q7 Leah Winer ☮️ 🟦, Dr. Polina Zmijewski, Danielle Wilson, Rana Higgins MD: What advice do you have for trainees who are following along on this chat? Do you have anything gender-specific you want to share? AmJSurgery AJS Student and Resident Scholar (STARS) Committee

Sophia Williams-Perez, MD Dr. Polina Zmijewski Danielle Wilson Rana Higgins MD AmJSurgery AJS Student and Resident Scholar (STARS) Committee #AJSChat A7 (1/2) It sounds strange but learning more about gender bias in training (and all aspects of life), is empowering/liberating. It took time, but I now take individual microaggressions a little less personally and examine the larger system at play @ajs_star AmJSurgery

Miss out on tonight’s AmJSurgery / AJS Student and Resident Scholar (STARS) Committee tweet chat? We’ve got you covered! Just search #AJSChat to find all of tonight’s eight questions and the invaluable answers from the study’s authors. You won’t want to miss it!

Congratulations🌟 Cameron Comrie and team on this important study!

Important work by STARS member Aaron Albuck and team✨

Surgical Innovation article discusses the ACGME requirement that sponsoring institutions of postgraduate medical training provide trainees with at least 6 weeks of paid parental leave throughout their training period. ja.ma/4fvXtIZ

Proud of our group’s new study featured in the inaugural issue of the newly launched AATS JTCVS Structural and Endovascular Journal highlighting the variability in catheter-based skills training for CT surgery trainees. Time for standardized training! Thais Faggion Vinholo

Humbled and honored to continue with something I’m so passionate about 💪

Excited to finally share this Society of University Surgeons (SUS) perspective piece that was brought to life with the help of three incredible surgical leaders and advocates 🌟Marie Crandall, MD, MPH, FACS Dawn Coleman Erika Adams Newman SURGERY Journal

Duration of Perioperative Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Neonatal Surgery: Less is More! herb chen Paula Ferrada MD FACS FCCM MAMSE Julio Mayol Steven D Wexner MD, PhD Dr Luis Felipe Cabrera Vargas MD FACS MACC MACCVA Cirbosque #SoMe4Surgery Tom Varghese Jr. MD, MS, MBA, FACS, MAMSE 🇺🇸 Sergey Minaev Article link: americanjournalofsurgery.com/article/S0002-…

We are excited to announce our next 🌹Roses and Thorns of Academic Surgery🌹 session! Join us as we talk with Andrew M. Ibrahim MD, MSc (He/Him) and continue to learn such important wisdom⭐️ Register with the QR code! AmJSurgery ✨

OUR SURGICAL PRACTICE WITH THE PAN-AFRICAN ACADEMY OF CHRISTIAN SURGEONS (PAACS) 💥🔪👁️⤵️📍 Dr Luis Felipe Cabrera Vargas MD FACS MACC MACCVA Steven D Wexner MD, PhD Paula Ferrada MD FACS FCCM MAMSE Gopika SenthilKumar, PhD herb chen Cirbosque #SoMe4Surgery Tom Varghese Jr. MD, MS, MBA, FACS, MAMSE 🇺🇸 Link: americanjournalofsurgery.com/article/S0002-…

This week's #articleoftheweek, we feature a piece by Drs. Zhu and Sarah Aitken entitled. As an invited commentary, they dive into the challenges and nuances that are important to consider when a resident is in need of remediation intheir surgical residency program. Take a read!✨