September 2022 Cutting Edge Newsletter

01 Sep 2023

by Disaster Committee, Acute Care Surgery Committee, Communications Committee, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, Pediatric Trauma Surgery Committee

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editor’s note

Welcome to the Cutting Edge! Our goal is to provide info that will be useful to the practicing acute care surgeon.

september
e-news

View what’s going on with AAST! From upcoming deadlines to educational offerings, read up on what’s happening!

Congrats to Dr. Elizabeth Benjamin, medical director of our Marcus Trauma Center, on promotion to full Professor in the Department of Surgery — a promotion we enthusiastically endorse!

disaster committee

AAST expands website to include disaster resource page

The AAST Disaster Committee announces the development of a specialized website linked to the organization’s main website designed to provide members and other trauma providers with rapid access to a wide array of disaster management resources.

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acute care surgery:

Surgeon vs Machine or Surgeon with Machine: Machine-Learning Applied to Acute Care Surgery

As Acute Care Surgeons, we constantly triage, resuscitate and operate with incomplete data. We need methods to inform the best care using patient-specific data and risk assessment…

diversity, equity, and inclusion:

Fixing the Leaky Pipeline to Careers in Surgery: A Longitudinal Mentoring Program for High School Students

While racial diversity in medical student applicants, matriculants and graduates has increased over time, underrepresentation of historically excluded groups continues in general surgery residency training programs.

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