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Sheahan takes over as Vascular Surgery Board chair
Malachi Sheahan III, MD, chair of the Department of Surgery and chief of vascular surgery at Louisiana State University in New Orleans, is the new chair of the Vascular Surgery Board (VSB) of the American Board of Surgery (ABS). Sheahan…
SVS Executive Board votes against creating free-standing Vascular Surgery Board
After two years of careful deliberation, the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Executive Board (EB) has voted against pursuing the creation of a free-standing Vascular Surgery Board (VSB), opting instead to maintain the current federated board structure under the American…
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…
ABS seeks vascular surgeon nominations for council position
The American Board of Surgery (ABS) is accepting nominations for vascular surgeons to serve on its council for a six-year term, beginning on July 1, 2025. SVS members interested in this role should have experience as program directors or in…
SVS task force assesses progress made, remaining gaps in optimal board certification for vascular surgery
SVS Executive Director Kenneth M. Slaw, PhD, examines the key forces and factors shaping vascular surgery and how they may interact to create different environments. The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Strategic Board of Directors (SBOD), at its January 2024…
SVS urges revisions for independent cardiology certification board
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has expressed conditional support for cardiology establishing an independent certification board but objects to provisions in the current American Board of Cardiovascular Medicine (ABCVM) proposal as they conflict significantly with the mission and requirements…
‘Implementation of EPAs marks a paradigm shift in how we prepare vascular surgeons’
As the landscape of surgical education undergoes rapid evolution, one innovation promises to redefine how future vascular surgeons are trained and certified: Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs). A group of experts shed light yesterday on their potential to transform surgical training…
Vascular surgery moves to assess trainees’ competence with EPAs
For surgeons, “EPA” means not the “Environmental Protection Agency” but “Entrustable Professional Activity”—and they’re going to change surgery training. A pilot rollout for vascular surgeons will begin in select centers in the fall with Vascular Surgery Board (VSB) implementation expected…
Act now to keep CME credits, SVS urges members
Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) members should act now so they do not lose earned continuing medical education (CME) credits. The American Board of Surgery (ABS) has changed its processes for CME credits, which affects their upload as well as…
The ABS-VSB: Extolling the virtues of vascular surgery’s independent board
The evolutionary process by which vascular surgery became a bona fide independent discipline has much to thank the American Board of Vascular Surgery (ABVS), but the specialty’s certification interests are now fully met by the American Board of Surgery Vascular…