Tag: Vascular Surgery Board

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...

SVS task force assesses progress made, remaining gaps in optimal board...

SVS Executive Director Kenneth M. Slaw, PhD, examines the key forces and factors shaping vascular surgery and how they may interact to create different...

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...

SVS launches Vascular Board Certification Model Task Force

The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Executive Board has established the Vascular Board Certification Model Task Force to deliver a final report entitled “Free-standing...

UCLA-SVS review course is this month

Time is running out to plan attendance at the annual course, A Comprehensive Review and Update of What’s New in Vascular and Endovascular Surgery,...

SCVS president becomes chair of American Board of Surgery

The American Board of Surgery (ABS) has named Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery (SCVS) President M. Ashraf Mansour, MBBS, as its 2023–24 chair. He...
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The top 10 most popular Vascular Specialist stories of February 2023

In February 2023, the hits with Vascular Specialist readers included positive safety and efficacy findings from the PRESERVE trial; the announcement of the scientific program...

SVS issues membership dues reminder

To avoid a lapse in their benefits, Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) members are encouraged to pay their 2023 member dues by Dec. 31.  These...
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Prepare for Board exams at UCLA/SVS review course

Planning to take the upcoming Vascular Surgery Board (VSB) exams? Prepare for them at the “Seventh Annual UCLA/SVS Symposium: A Comprehensive Review and Update...

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),...

Vascular Surgery Board seeks director nominees

The Vascular Surgery Board (VSB) of the American Board of Surgery (ABS) is seeking director nominees to serve a six-year term beginning July 1,...
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Registration for UCLA-SVS vascular review course open

The Sixth Annual University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)-Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Symposium returns as a live course for 2021 from Oct. 1...

Virtual VSB Certifying Exam ‘a huge success’

The virtually administered Vascular Surgery Certifying Exam (CE) has been declared "a huge success" by members of the Vascular Surgery Board (VSB). The VSB...

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:...