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Join the Conversation on SVSConnect
Transitioning toward retirement or looking for postgrad training opportunities? Or maybe you need some advice on good “power meals” to have during your busy days? These are only a few of the many threads attracting comments on SVSConnect, your online…
Participate in a Retirement Plan
“Tranche” dates — for completing all the paperwork for the Kai-Zen retirement accelerator program offered through the SVS Affinity Program of expanded benefits — have been set for 2019. The first dates are Jan. 28, March 11 and May 6.…
Resident Research Award Deadline Extended
The SVS Foundation has extended the application deadline for its prestigious Resident Research Award to Tuesday, Jan. 22. This award is one of the most important opportunities for surgical trainees in vascular laboratories and includes the opportunity for the recipient…
VAM Scholarships Available
Students and trainees can get financial help to attend the Vascular Annual Meeting in June. The Society for Vascular Surgery distributes dozens of travel scholarships to attend VAM, which is the perfect opportunity to meet other students as well as…
Surgeons: Urge PAs to Join SVS
The SVS has a section dedicated solely to vascular physician assistants. All surgeons are encouraged to urge their PAs to join the section. This “professional home” for PAs has grown to 138 members in just one short year and more…
Nominate an Outstanding Surgeon for the Community Excellence Award
This year, the Society for Vascular Surgery will recognize a member in community practice who excels, leads and contributes. If you know of such a surgeon, make your nominations for the SVS Excellence in Community Service Award by Feb. 1.…
Some patients leave a scar on you
Every surgeon has experienced the anguish of an adverse outcome. The elective aneurysm that dies on the table, the asymptomatic carotid patient that has a stroke in the recovery room, the cosmetic varicose vein case that has a pulmonary embolus.…
Reflections on women in surgery
As I reflect upon the past year, 2018 has certainly made a mark for addressing burnout among medical professionals, enforcing wellness, and targeting implicit and explicit gender bias in medicine and surgery. Dr. Laura Drudi Looking back, I entered surgery…
Burnout
Having taken the SVS “burnout” survey, I felt that it really never got into the “whys” of what was making individuals burn out. It dealt more with the consequences of the whys rather than the whys themselves, and it is…
The SVS is working for you on burnout
Following a series of Vascular Specialist pieces highlighting the crisis of surgeon burnout and the unique challenges that face vascular surgeons, the SVS Wellness Task Force was formed in 2017. Recognizing that burnout may compromise recruitment and retention into our…