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  • Physician Compensation and Practice Patterns Study

    The Health Economics Committee of the AAST in collaboration with the Reimbursement Committee of the TCAA requests your participation in this survey on Trauma and Acute Care Surgeon compensation and Practice Patterns. The goal of this research is to obtain updated information on Trauma and Acute Care Surgeon compensation and the methodologies for calculating salary/bonuses. The study will also evaluate the relationship of practice characteristics (eg location, hospital type, practice structure), practice patterns (eg shifts, surgeon of the week, faculty model) and surgeon variables (eg age, sex) to compensation.

    This survey is to be completed by trauma surgeons at designated or verified centers and is expected to take 15-20 minutes to complete.

    Please complete the survey only one time for your primary employer.

    For questions or clarification, please contact Jennifer Ward at (704) 360-4665 or Jennifer@traumacenters.org.

     

    All information collected in this survey will remain anonymous and no identifying information will be retained or released.

    Please click this link to the survey:  https://survey.sogolytics.com/r/AAST%202025 

    Open Date: 3-03-2025

    Close Date: 5-31-2025

  • How to Survey the AAST Membership

    Survey Design and Reporting:  To uphold survey standards and the likelihood of peer-reviewed publication, we now require that surveys are designed in keeping with the EQUATOR CHERRIES Checklist.  The submissions system has been designed with this in mind.  The CHERRIES Checklist is open access and can be found here:  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15471760/

    Submission Deadlines:  Ten survey applications are accepted each quarter, considered on a first-come-first-serve basis.  The deadlines for quarterly review are the 15th of January/April/July/October.  Surveys submitted outside of the first 10 applications will be rolled over to the next quarter.  Survey authors will be updated on the status of their submissions by the subcommittee.

    Survey Review and Selection Process: To minimize survey fatigue, we aim to circulate 6 surveys a year. All submitted survey applications will be reviewed using a standardized scoring process by the Surveys Subcommittee.  The top scoring survey will be selected for publication.  Surveys not selected in a given quarter maybe 1) held for publication the following cycle, 2) returned for revision, or 3) declined.  Authors will be updated on the status of their survey with feedback. 

    Survey Publication Timeline: Selected surveys will be published during the corresponding quarter on the first Monday of March/June/September/December.

    Additional Notes:

    • Survey recruitments are sent as separate emails two weeks apart (a total of two emails) and embedded in the weekly/monthly newsletter.
    • The survey will be featured on this page until the end of the recruitment period requested by the primary investigator.
    • Surveys created by the AAST Committees and the Board of Managers will be given priority.
    • For any questions, please e-mail aast@aast.org

    Submit Your Survey

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