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The 2013 AWS Foundation Awards

11 Apr 2014

by: Susan Kaiser, MD, PhD, FACSAWS Foundation AwardsMonday, October 7, 2013Washington DCDr. Susan Pories & Dr. Joyce MajureThe Nina Starr Braunwald Award (given first to Claude Organ MD in 1993), ...

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Health and Surgical Residency

11 Apr 2014

By: Bharti Jasra, MDPeople like me are more interested in talking about healthy living than actually living it, since our lifestyles are often the direct opposite of healthy. This article is based on ...

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Strategies for Wellness in Medical School

11 Apr 2014

by Sophia K. McKinley Medical school presents multiple threats to wellness:  USMLE exams, demanding rotation schedules, and weeks of residency interview travel all pose challenges to healthy...

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Practical Wellness Tips to Surviving Residency

08 Apr 2014

by: Brittany Bankhead-Kendall, MS, MD   In medical school, I remember the first week of orientation they had a lecture on wellness and all the pieces of the theoretical "wellness pie" that we should ...

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Failure

08 Apr 2014

by Mary Brandt, MDDear Dr. Brandt,  I enjoy your blog very much. As a second year medical student, I know that my peers and I all struggle with what we view as ‘failure’ at some point or anot...

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Can we have an AWS Visiting Professor every year?

07 Apr 2014

Submitted by: Dr. Jane WeyCCF Chair of Surgery: Dr. Matt WalshSummary of VisitAWS Kim Ephgrave Visiting Professor Dr. Tuttle-Newhall Cleveland ClinicMarch 4-5, 2014Dr. Tuttle-Newhall arrived on March ...

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A place of our own

02 Apr 2014

by Amalia Cochran, MDApparently there are a number of men who, upon hearing about a women surgeon’s activity will state, “We don’t get to have a men in surgery group!” This statement is both t...

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Changing Gender Paradigms

27 Mar 2014

Original blog post by Dr. Paula Ferrada (February 22, 2014) can be found on OnSurg's blog. While reading an innocuous post regarding dating female doctors, I came across a comment that ...