Association for Academic Surgery (AAS) Fall Courses 2018

Association for Academic Surgery (AAS) Fall Courses is organized by Association for Academic Surgery (AAS) and will be held on Oct 20, 2018 at Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.

Fundamentals of Surgical Research Course :

Who Should Attend?
• Junior Faculty Pursuing a New Research Career
• Fellows
• Residents
• Undergraduate and Medical Students

Learn How To :
• Find the right mentor for your research
• Efficiently manage time to succeed in research project
• Apply for research funding, and where to obtain these funds
• Develop a hypothesis and design experiments to test it
• Submitting work for national meetings
• Deliver an effective research presentation
• Prepare and revise a manuscript based on research findings
• Optimize success in basic/translational research and clinical/health services research (via breakout sessions)
• Conduct global surgical research
• Conduct educational/simulation research

Early Career Development Course :

Who Should Attend?
• Junior Faculty in their first 5 years of practice
• Fellows
• Senior Residents

Learn How To:
• Effectively plan and start your academic career
• Negotiate your job, resources, and programmatic support
• Balance your academic, clinical, and personal responsibilities
• Build and manage a research team; obtain and sustain research funding
• Make the most of society, university, and hospital committee involvement
• Advance along promotion and tenure tracks
• Develop and sustain mentoring relationships
• Cope with and recover from setbacks
• Appreciate diverse pathways to success in academic surgery
• Network with leaders in academic surgery and with early-career peers

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.