Tag: APDVS
Class of 2024–25: VQI announces third annual set of Fellowship in...
The Vascular Quality Initiative (VQI) Patient Safety Organization’s Fellowship in Training (FIT) Program has announced its third class of FIT participants for 2024–25 alongside...
The top 10 most popular Vascular Specialist stories of October 2024
In October, the most read stories from Vascular Specialist included a new leadership announcement from the American College of Surgeons (ACS); study results examining a...
APDVS launches vascular surgery curriculum e-book for medical students
The Association of Program Directors in Vascular Surgery (APDVS) has released a new ebook designed to enhance vascular surgery education for medical students. According...
SVS launches registration for 3rd annual CPVI Skills Course
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has officially launched registration for the annual Complex Peripheral Vascular Initiatives (CPVI) Skills Course. The first course launched...
APDVS says goodbye to two long-term leaders during spring meeting
The 2024 Association of Program Directors in Vascular Surgery (APDVS) convened in Chicago April 5–6 for their annual spring meeting, which held the record...
More than half of medical students altered Match ranking order after...
Amid the build-up to residency Match Day 2024, the Association of Program Directors in Vascular Surgery (APDVS) has delivered data from a VISIT (Vascular...
Vascular Specialist–February 2024
In this issue:
SAVS outgoing President David L. Cull details his journey to the heart of diversity, equity and inclusion
More than half of...
VQI Fellows in Training program marks one year
The Vascular Quality Initiative (VQI) Fellows in Training (FIT) program is a success, said leaders as they provided a one-year review.
FIT introduces residents and...
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...
Get FIT: Applications for VQI Fellowship in Training program open
The Fellowship in Training (FIT) from the Society for Vascular Surgery’s Vascular Quality Initiative (SVS VQI) introduces residents and fellows in vascular-focused programs to the...
Deadline extension: SAVS extends travel scholarship application cut-off for 2023 meeting
The Southern Association for Vascular Surgery (SAVS) has announced a deadline extension to Dec. 5 for 20 travel scholarships that are available to medical...
SVS adds ‘service’ criterion to Distinguished Fellows process
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has added service to the Society as an important component of its Distinguished Fellows process, an honor annually...
APDVS president reflects on training challenges of COVID-19, ‘supply and demand’...
"There are not enough vascular surgeons to do the work our specialty provides." Those are the stark words of Jason T. Lee, MD, president...
Bolstering the workforce: Session details how to start a vascular training...
The workforce shortage issues set to plague vascular surgery over the next few decades, alongside an aging population and increase in vascular disease, formed...
Supply & demand: [Private] practice matters
Vascular surgeons in private practice could play a crucial role in alleviating one of the existential problems currently vexing the specialty: The training of...
VQI launches fellowship in training program, announces scholarship
The Society for Vascular Surgery’s Vascular Quality Initiative (SVS VQI) is launching a new SVS Patient Safety Organization VQI Fellowship in Training (SVS PSO...
Candidates for 2021-22 SVS vice president revealed
The candidates in the running to be the next Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) vice president—and a future SVS president—have been unveiled.
They are William...
APDVS honors Jack L. Cronenwett with inaugural Lifetime Achievement in Education...
The Association of Program Directors in Vascular Surgery (APDVS) bestowed its first-ever Lifetime Achievement in Education Award on the association's one-time president Jack L....
Dalman to trainees: ‘Vascular surgery is a tremendously rewarding career’
For aspiring vascular trainees, interview season is a time of great stress as well as opportunity. Graduating medical students and residents are preparing the...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
SVS president to close out virtual conference with focus on quality...
As SVS ONLINE: "New Advances and Discoveries in Vascular Surgery" prepares to become part of the past, the final presentation will look toward the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...