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SVS makes commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion
Following a year of study and including more than 40 separate goals, objectives and requested actions, the SVS Executive Board has received, reviewed and embraced the report of the SVS Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Task Force as a blueprint…
Integrated vascular residency recruitment: Start pipeline earlier, engage more deeply
Our great specialty and the patients we serve face an impending critical shortage of vascular surgeons in the decade ahead. The Association of Program Directors in Vascular Surgery (APDVS) and the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) have recognized this issue…
APDVS responds to #Medbikini, re-avows commitment to diverse workforce
Vascular surgery took the national stage during the last week of July as outraged medical professionals across the country responded to a visual abstract posted on Twitter which highlighted a study recently published in the Journal of Vascular Surgery (JVS).…
SVS ONLINE closing act: Looking into the future of vascular surgery
What’s ahead for vascular surgery? Many changes, both possible and confirmed, according to the final SVS ONLINE session, “Assuring quality in vascular surgical care: The future of center, program and surgeon accreditation” held July 2. Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS)…
SVS president to close out virtual conference with focus on quality in vascular care
As SVS ONLINE: “New Advances and Discoveries in Vascular Surgery” prepares to become part of the past, the final presentation will look toward the future. It is part of the tradition of the Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM), which SVS ONLINE…
SVS issues statement abhorring injustice and violence amid unrest in US
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) and the Association of Program Directors in Vascular Surgery (APDVS) today issued a joint statement in support of diversity as the U.S. continues to boil after African American man George Floyd died at the…
Med students: Q&A webinar on vascular specialty slated for May 13
An event aimed at attracting medical students to the vascular specialty has been organized by the Society of Vascular Surgery (SVS), the Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Society (VESS) and the Association of Program Directors in Vascular Surgery (APDVS). The three…
Your SVS: Storming into 2020 and horizons beyond
With significant progress made on many fronts in 2019, the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) is looking forward to the next horizon in 2020. In late January, I updated the Strategic Board of Directors on progress to date on strategic…
March 2020 is vascular recruitment month
Much has been made of the impending shortage of physicians in the United States, with ominous predictions that it could come as soon as 2030.1 The driving force behind the overall shortage is a menacing convergence of a rising, aging…
VSIG webinar coming soon from APDVS
From 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. (CDT) on March 26, the Association of Program Directors in Vascular Surgery (APDVS) Recruitment of Medical Students and Residents Committee will present a free informational webinar called VSIG Live. This will give all U.S. medical…