Surgical Conferences

[GreatSaphenous]

Hay all. Mucho congrats to all who matched and are gearing up for the first year of our surgical residencies. My program offers a week plus funds to attend a conference of my choosing (and the PD's approval). Other than the ACS annual meeting, does anyone know of where to find information on the varios meetings that are being conducted? I tried a google search on 'surgical conferences' but mostly came up with individual residencies weekly conference schedule. Any help is appreciated.

As Always,
I am the Great Saphenous

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[njbmd]

Hay all. Mucho congrats to all who matched and are gearing up for the first year of our surgical residencies. My program offers a week plus funds to attend a conference of my choosing (and the PD's approval). Other than the ACS annual meeting, does anyone know of where to find information on the varios meetings that are being conducted? I tried a google search on 'surgical conferences' but mostly came up with individual residencies weekly conference schedule. Any help is appreciated.

As Always,
I am the Great Saphenous

Hey there,
Wait until you start residency. Your residency office is going to have loads of info on the various conferences. There are Vascular Surgery conferences, SAGES (Society of American Gastrointestial and Endoscopic Surgeons), American College of Surgeons, National Medical Association, Plastic Surgery Conferences, and many many more. For my money, SAGES is the most fun and the most informative.

njbmd 😎

 

[surg]

Each subspecialty has a big meeting of their own or two or three. Then there are umbrella organizations.

The general ones I can think of that people go to:
ACS Clinical Congress (october) -- Huge meeting, has a lot of breadth, less depth, but generally a lot of fun

ACS spring meeting (March) -- less well attended, this year was held concurrently with SAGES and AHPBA

AAS (Association for Academic Surgery) (November) www.aasurg.org -- this is a more junior society to SUS, but the level of research is actually pretty good. A good place to meet up and coming attendings

SUS (Society for University Surgeons) (Feb) www.susweb.org --generally more senior surgeons in academia.
NOTE: AAS and SUS are trialing a joint meeting for 2006 in Feb. www.academicsurgicalcongress.org

Specialty ones:
SSO (Society for Surgical Oncology) (Mar) www.surgonc.org

SAGES (Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons) www.sages.org- (Mar): tends to focus on laparoscopy

ASCRS (American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons (May) www.fascrs.org

AHPBA (American Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association) (Mar) www.ahpba.org

AAES (American Association of Endocrine Surgeons) Apr or May www.endocrinesurgery.org

SVS (Society for Vascular Surgery) (June) www.vascularweb.org

there are also trauma, critical care, and thoracic and cardiac meetings. I'm getting bored with making this list, someone else is free to add to this.


Then there are tons of regional meetings: Central, Western, Pacific, Southern, Southeastern, Southwestern, etc. etc.

 

[KimR]

Another meeting which you may consider...the AMA Resident and Fellows Section. They meet twice annually, in November and June. The November meeting has a poster session. Both meetings provide means to contribute to policy and activities of the AMA.

 

[fourthyear]

When you start residency, sign up for a couple of major journals (all have discounted resident rates) and join the ACS - next thing you know your mail will be flooded with information about every surgery conference out there.