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Impact of Fellowship Programs on Residents’ Case Logs Examined
BOCA RATON, FLA. – Coexisting subspecialty fellowship programs have at most only minimal adverse impact on general surgery residency training operative volumes, according to a national study sponsored by the American Board of Surgery. The analysis also demonstrated that fellowship-bound…
Patient Education Press Releases Available for SVS Member Use
Each month, the Society for Vascular Surgery® (SVS) submits two vascular health press releases to more than 5,300 consumer media representatives nationwide. The press releases provide the public with information vital to the protection of their vascular health. “The consumer-focused…
SVS Members and Social Media
In December 2010, Society for Vascular Surgery® (SVS) joined Facebook and Linkedin. SVS already had an established presence on Twitter and YouTube. The impact of all four social media networks provides awareness of the specialty of vascular surgery and the…
What’s New at the Vascular Annual Meeting This Year?
New Program Format The Vascular Annual Meeting Program Committee has announced several new changes for this year’s meeting including condensing the meeting into three days. The official meeting dates are June 16-18 with several pre-meeting events scheduled for Wednesday, June…
Find Vascular Annual Meeting Information at Vascular.org
Visit Vascular Annual Meeting to view abstracts for the 2011 Vascular Annual Meeting®, taking place June 16-18 in Chicago. Abstracts have been posted for plenary, poster, rapid paced paper, and World Federation of Vascular Societies sessions. VascularAnnualMeeting.org features complete information…
Find the AAAnswers at Vascular Annual Meeting
Professional football legend Joe Theismann will speak at noon on Saturday, June 18 at the Vascular Annual Meeting® in Room 354b. Due to his family history of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) disease, Theismann is lending his voice to improving AAA…
SVS and APMA Join Forces to Encourage Vascular Wellness
Foot Health Awareness Month provided an ideal opportunity for the presidents of SVS and the American Podiatric Medical Association (APMA) to jointly promote vascular health. In April, SVS distributed the newspaper article and radio PSA, Celebrate Foot Health Awareness Month…
Crawford Forum: Focus On Health Care Reform
From 10:00 a.m. until noon on Thursday, June 6 at McCormick Place, Lakeside Center in Chicago, the SVS Vascular Annual Meeting® will feature the E. Stanley Crawford Critical Issues Forum. SVS President-Elect Richard P. Cambria, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital,…
Fear and Loathing on the Interview Trail
As we strive to provide the most advanced care possible to our patients with vascular disease, there is one area of our practice that stands out as being as archaic as cellophane wrapping of aneurysms: the process of finding a…
About The Residents’ Forum
With this issue, we begin a new column which we have chosen to call Residents’ Forum. We hope that Vascular Residents, Fellows, and others interested in entering this exciting field will consider submitting an essay on topics important to them…