Association for Surgical Education - Coordinators of Surgical Education

04/09/2021

The 2021 Association for Surgical Education Coordinator Program track will be offered Monday, April 26-Thursday, 29, 2021 in conjunction with the ASE Annual Meeting Thursday, April 29 - Saturday, May 1. 2021. Registration is still available at: https://www.surgicaleducation.com/annual-meeting-information/

The ASE CCSE Program Track includes the popular joint clerkship director-coordinator "Troubleshooting Your Clerkship" workshop, discussions on pivoting curriculum with COVID-19, evaluations, matching into surgical residency in COIVD-19, learning technologies, as well as, a special professional development session led by Lisa M. Laughman, LMSW, ACSW on "Recognizing and Tending to Burnout & Overwhelm."

This session will explore the elements of burnout, and how burnout impacts our capacity to navigate the day-to-day life challenges that just keep coming at us during this pandemic. An overview of a resilience training model, and a 6-word framework, will be provided to help navigate through these tough moments. This session will also include a focus on the importance of “completing your stress cycle” and having a solid stress mitigation protocol, a.k.a. self-care practices.

The ASE 2021 Annual Meeting will offer focused presentations on surgical education through a dynamic platform for education, networking, and CME. Registration includes full access to Live, On Demand, and Poster content. Access to content will remain open through December 31, 2021. Click on the items below for additional information.

We hope you join us at

12/31/2020

“The AAMC continually strives to attract a diverse pool of nominees for its awards. Diversity as a core value embodies inclusiveness, mutual respect, and multiple perspectives. It also serves as a catalyst for change resulting in health equity. In this context, we are mindful of all aspects of human differences such as socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, language, nationality, s*x, gender identity, s*xual orientation, religion, geography, disability, and age.

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12/23/2020

Residents waged a protest on Friday, demanding to know why senior faculty were getting the vaccine before front-line workers who see COVID-19 patients. Stanford has agreed the plan was flawed.

04/16/2020

How are your students feeling about this?

Medical students who are a few weeks from graduation want to help out during these tough times. But that could have consequences for their mental health.

03/18/2020

Earlier today Penn State Surgery launched a youtube channel, Quarantine Surgical Education, providing free, high quality surgical lectures for medical students. Currently, the content consists of Penn State lectures typically provided during the course of the clerkship. They hope to increase the volume of lectures available by crowdsourcing for and then vetting material. In the meantime, if any students are interested in accessing the channel, the link is provided here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtIdEwTniVKJD_TPVxqakukCOT4ra0dYJ&fbclid=IwAR1_YjC2hD-CawOXkRg3oyqdhWr6UR7l3D4ohetZEcmw8avgHH0buA7h7lw

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11/04/2019

Reminder: Our next quarterly conference call will be tomorrow, Tuesday, November 5 at 2PM EST.

Please come prepare to share your ideas on what you would like to present at Seattle 2020 or topics you would like to hear about at Seattle 2020. This would also be a great time to recruit collaborators if you would like to have a joint institutional project.

10/29/2019

Coordinators of Surgical Education Committee Chair - Lindsay Gluf-Magar of Michigan State University College of Human Medicine and Vice Chair - Megan Rendina of Indiana University School of Medicine representing the committee at the Association for Surgical Education Board of Directors meeting at the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress 2019 in San Francisco, California.

08/15/2019

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