General Surgeons
Surgery was the most difficult thing I could imagine. And so I became a surgeon - Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone
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The Secret World of Women Surgeons You Had No Idea Existed
Somewhere near the end of my eight years of surgical training, I was operating with an older female attending surgeon. We were exchanging stories about the traumatic yet awesome experiences of residency.
“Surgery made a man out of me,” she chuckled.
We finished the operation and I headed home later that day.
I thought about the magnitude of that statement. She didn’t need to explain the masculinization that had occurred through her surgical residency — I totally got it. As a female surgeon 25 years my senior, hers had certainly been a more grueling experience, with no work hours regulations…
Featured
The Instant Gratification of Being a Surgeon
Sareh Parangi, a doctor at one of the Harvard hospitals, talks about why people hold her work in the operating room in such high regard.
Articles of Interest
Why Are Women So Underrepresented in Surgery Leadership?
There is an uprising of campaigns and initiatives to empower women in medicine and surgery through the Association of Women Surgeons, Women in Thoracic Surgery, Medstro forums through the NEJM, the “This is what we look like” T-shirt campaign, and the recent #ILookLikeASurgeon movement. Hopefully, it’s only a matter of time before those percentages of female leadership roles increase, just as our Girls’ Night Out has grown from two to over 30.
Resources
General Surgery News
The independent monthly newspaper for the general surgeon.
AccessSurgery
Where top surgeons begin. AccessSurgery® from McGraw-Hill Medical is an integrated online resource that provides medical students, surgical residents, and practicing surgeons with quick answers to surgical inquiries from trusted sources.
Buckeye Surgeon
Ruminations by a non-academic general surgeon from the heart of the rust belt.
CSurgeries
Peer-reviewed surgical video journal for surgeons, trainees and patients.
Inside Surgery
Authored by L. “Skip” Marcucci, MD, a board-certified general surgeon, trauma surgeon, and critical care physician. Selected as one of the 10 best surgery sites on the web by the Wall Street Journal.
ORLive.com
Online surgical and healthcare video and webcasts.
Outpatient Surgery
Outpatient Surgery Magazine serves as a meetingplace and a marketplace for decisionmakers in facilities where ambulatory surgery is done. The magazine facilitates the exchange of ideas, advice, experiences and information between surgical facility management team members.
School of Surgery
Audio and video podcasts aimed at medical students and doctors in training on a growing range of topics across surgery.
Surgical-Tutor
This site contains educational material aimed at those preparing for undergraduate and postgraduate surgical examinations. It includes clinical tutorials, a journal club, multiple choice questions, revision notes, slide library, discussion group and more.
Vesalius
The Internet Resource for Surgical Education. Our mission at Vesalius is to carry the pioneering tradition established by Vesalius and Leonardo into the 21st century, by creating a state-of-the-art, Internet-based resource for surgical education.
Controversies, Problems & Techniques in Surgery
This conference has been designed for practicing general and oncology surgeons and other surgical health professionals in evaluating standards of care and new techniques and interventions for surgical conditions of colorectal, breast and endocrine cancer and other topics in surgery.
Martindale's The Virtual Medical Center-Surgery Center
Martindale's Virtual Medical Center, Surgery section contains teaching files, medical cases, courses and textbooks, tutorials, databases, and movies.
DoctorsLounge
DoctorsLounge is one of the most popular online medical resources for physicians, students and allied clinical professionals. It provides clinical information about surgery through multimedia tutorials and other study aids.
MDLinx
MDLinx Surgery is your ultimate resource for the latest General Surgery and subspecialty surgery news articles published in over 2,000 peer-reviewed medical journals and popular press. Our diligent team of medical editor’s rank sort and summarize Surgery news articles with topics ranging from: Cardiac Surgery, Critical Care, Vascular, Thoracic, Peds Surgery, Neurosurgery and much more.
