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Training smarter, not harder: Analysis finds no negative impact of reduced core surgical requirements
Since the 2018 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) reduction of core surgical requirements from 24 to 18 months during integrated vascular surgery residency, vascular residents’ operative experience has been unaffected, suggesting improved training optimization and efficiency. This was…
The question of Vascular Surgery Board independence: Federated or free-standing?
A survey recently went out to Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) members asking them to contribute their voice to an opinion poll over whether the Vascular Surgery Board (VSB) should remain a constituent board of the American Board of Surgery…
When there are none: Why manels are out
On June 12, 2019, the director of the National Institutes of Health, Francis Collins, MD, made a public commitment to decline to take part in panels that “do not fairly evaluate scientists of all backgrounds for speaking opportunities.”1 Collins referred…
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…
APDVS prepares for ACGME Next Accreditation system
More than 150 program directors and residency coordinators attended the recent spring meeting of the Association for Program Directors in Vascular Surgery (APDVS). The focus of the meeting was an update on the implementation of the Accreditation Council for Graduate…