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Vascular surgery review book seeks to plug hole in VSITE preparation process
When University of Massachusetts Medical School integrated vascular surgery resident Thomas Creeden, DO, was preparing for his first Vascular Surgery In-Training Exam (VSITE), it struck him there was a gap in the market. While those training in most other surgical…
Bolstering the workforce: Session details how to start a vascular training program
The workforce shortage issues set to plague vascular surgery over the next few decades, alongside an aging population and increase in vascular disease, formed the backdrop to a 2022 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) breakout session in Boston (June 15–18) designed…
From proposal to podium: Tips for getting your abstract accepted at academic conferences
Striving for excellence in research is one of the defining characteristics of an academic surgeon. But simply doing great research is not enough. The dissemination of that research through academic forums, presentations and publications is just as critical because others…
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 future generations of specialists and its intersection with declining numbers of open abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA)…
Moments suspended in time: Joining the vascular fold
Noon on March 19, 2021, marked the end of an unprecedented year in the world of resident recruiting. Months of virtual interviews, “away” rotations done through a computer screen, and a few short trips to prospective cities amidst rolling waves…
Lesson learned: Entering vascular residency during first wave of pandemic
An insight into the benefits of virtual learning from the perspective of a medical student on the cusp of residency as the early stages of the pandemic played out was delivered during the most recent Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS)…
Time’s nearly up: Apply for VAM travel scholarships by March 9
Time is quickly running out for medical students and general surgery residents to apply for Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) travel scholarships to attend the 2022 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) in Boston this June. “I wasn’t sure what I wanted…
Diversity efforts while in training: Is it just another box to check?
2020 was a herald year. It ushered in a global pandemic and a reckoning with issues of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in our workspaces. Vascular surgery, by nature of the diseases we encounter and our longitudinal relationship with our…
Apply for VAM travel scholarships by March 9
Medical students and general surgery residents have until March 9 to apply for Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) travel scholarships that enable attendance at the 2022 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) in Boston this June. The scholarships are the SVS General…
SAVS 2022: ‘Recruiting more women without knowing race/ethnicity of those women only tells part of story’
Failure to stratify gender by race or ethnicity, or vice versa, leads to missed opportunities in the recruitment of underrepresented members from the potential vascular surgery trainee pool. That was one of the examples delivered in a poster presentation at…