By Nancy Lopez As a fourth-year medical student, I am anxiously awaiting the third Friday of March: Match Day. Match Day is an iconic moment for medical students in which the last decade of both succ...
by Jane Zhao, MD, MS Two years ago, I wrote a blog post about the benefits of informatics to surgeons. Shortly afterward, David Schneider wrote a similar article on the AAS blog describing clinical...
By Stephanie Bonne On a busy day in the ICU, I was back and forth between meetings, notes and patients, when my phone buzzed a couple times with twitter notifications. Something seemed to be up. I st...
By Jane Zhao It has been FIVE years since we launched the Association of Women Surgeons (AWS): Inspiring & Encouraging Women Surgeons Blog. AWS launched the blog during a time when there were Z...
There has been a lot of conversation about what is the role of women in the workplace and especially surgery with the #MeToo and #ILookLikeASurgeon campaigns and what are ways we can prepare ourselves...
As a trauma surgeon, there are days of the year that we know will be busy calls. New Year’s Eve, Halloween, and the upcoming Fourth of July. It’s a good reminder that we all need to be safe and...
[caption id="attachment_16785" align="alignleft" width="300"] Figure 1- Thoracic Surgery Pipeline[/caption] As more women medical students choose general surgery and surgical subspecialties as a ca...
Across the United States, organizations and individuals are recognizing Mental Health Awareness month, shedding much needed light on an issue that affects nearly 1 in 5 US adults every year. Rates of ...
[caption id="attachment_16743" align="alignright" width="300"] The Santa Hustle Half Marathon on a chilly, windy Galveston day in December 2016[/caption] “Everything in moderation” is one of th...
Six years ago, I was attending a Pain and Palliative Care Symposium when I heard a medical oncologist say, “We treat disease. We do not treat emotion.” She was an outspoken advocate for palliation...