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Conveying vascular surgery’s essential ‘coolness’
Let’s start with a question: how do we communicate coolness? No, I am not referring to a cool or cold foot in the emergency room in need of assessment for acute limb ischemia. We have validated clinical scales to communicate…
SVS to hold Surgical Coaching Program webinar Jan. 24
Professional athletes and musicians have coaches to help them “up their games.” It follows then that vascular surgeons can benefit from coaching within the specialty. The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) will hold a webinar on surgical coaching from 6–7…
Peer-to-peer coaching program created to strengthen wellness support
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) and the Academy for Surgical Coaching are developing a first-of-its-kind coaching program that strengthens wellness support for vascular surgeons. Studies show they—along with physicians across specialties—are experiencing an increase in burnout, anxiety, depression and…
Study: 40% of vascular surgeons report suffering chronic work-related pain
A majority of vascular surgeons are in pain after a day of operating—with open and endovascular surgery identified as the types of intervention causing the greatest level of suffering from work-related discomfort, according to a study recently published in the…
Robert B. Smith III: A lifetime of achievement
His was the golden age of vascular surgery, said Robert B. Smith III, MD, recipient of this year’s SVS Lifetime Achievement Award. And he enjoyed every moment of it, including getting in on the ground floor of the specialty by…
Vascular surgeons: Avoiding burnout and achieving wellness
Coaching, institutional and cultural changes, advocacy, identifying issues and banding together all can play a part in vascular surgeons’ avoiding burnout and achieving wellness. These were among the themes to come out of Invited Session 6, “Enhancing wellness in times…
COVID-19 survey: Support of hospitals and societies ‘paramount’ to promoting well-being of vascular surgeons
Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic practice, anxiety, coping and support survey for vascular surgeons, recently presented in a Special Scientific Session on COVID-19 during SVS ONLINE on June 27, reveal higher anxiety and stress levels in vascular surgeons worried about the negative consequences of…
Dispatches: Opening up a difficult conversation around systemic racism
Recent times have wrought a potent cocktail of cultural disarray on the psyche of the United States. In medicine and vascular surgery, this confluence of events has been acute. First COVID-19 halted elective surgery, bringing the specialty to a near…
Crawford Forum sets the stage for vascular surgery future
It was an encapsulation of the existential questions surrounding vascular surgery. And it was just as the newly installed Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) president Ronald L. Dalman, MD, had designed. The Stanford University, California, vascular chief had intended it…
Alarming rate of suicidal ideation among female vascular surgeons warrants urgent intervention, researchers find
Gender-based differences driving career dissatisfaction and burnout exist, viewers of the SVS ONLINE (June 20–July 2) virtual conference heard during the William J. von Liebig Forum, the first scientific session, held on opening day. And an “alarming rate of suicidal…