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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 for Sudan’s first vascular meeting; the release of a former Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) President’s…
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 benefits of SVS membership include access to the Journal of Vascular Surgery publications at reduced…
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 of What’s New in Vascular and Endovascular Surgery.” The course is coming up quickly. It will…
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…
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, 2022. The VSB is comprised of approximately 12 members who represent the spectrum of vascular surgery…
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 to 3 at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California. The October dates are a change…
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 recently entered somewhat uncharted waters by conducting the image-heavy CE for remote test takers but recorded…
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: The future of center, program and surgeon accreditation” held July 2. Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS)…