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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 surgeons will begin in select centers in the fall with Vascular Surgery Board (VSB) implementation expected…
Vascular surgery oral boards text seeks to fill certifying void
Think of it as the omega of the vascular surgical textbook literature, quips Andrew M. Wishy, DO. As a training resource, it fits neatly on the trainee bookshelf on one side—the end to a partner title, The Vascular Surgery Review…
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…
Register for August Vascular Surgery Board review course
Get ready for the American Board of Surgery Vascular Surgery Board (ABS-VSB) Qualifying Exam in September by attending a comprehensive review course in August. The University of California, Los Angeles, and the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) collaborate on the…
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…
‘VSITE predicts Qualifying Exam success’
The Vascular Surgery In-Training Examination (VSITE) is “highly predictive” of a Vascular Qualifying Examination pass for examinees following both the integrated vascular surgery (0+5) and vascular fellowship (5+2) training paradigms, Vincent L. Rowe, MD, professor of surgery at the University…