Surgical Education Newsletter April 2014 Welcome Class of 2021 Categorical Residents 2014 Residency Friday March 21 was Match Day. According to the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) this year’s Match included 34,270 active applicants. There were 26,678 first-year positions offered, an increase of 540 over last year. The NRMP reported that of the total 25,687 applicants who successfully matched to first-year positions, 16,399 were U.S. medical school seniors, with 5.6 percent not matching. The NRMP reported a modest increase in U.S. seniors choosing primary care and 80.8 percent of U.S. seniors and 81.2 percent of independent applicants matched to one of their top three choices. Milestone use and reporting has begun for some specialties and will become effective for all other specialties by December 2015. All subspecialties that are linked to Next Accreditation System Phase I core specialties and some associated with Phase II specialties, including General Surgery and Surgical Subspecialties will report on the Milestones in December 2014. All other subspecialties will formally begin to use the Milestones in 2015. To make the certification and Maintenance of Certification (MOC) process more intuitive, the American Board of Surgery is transitioning its certificates from the academic year to the calendar year. To begin this transition, all current ABS certificates have been extended six months to December 31. All current ABS certificates now expire on December 31 of the year of expiration, rather than July 1. Diplomates may print verification of this new expiration date from the ABS website. Conferences (Note time change; M&M at 7:00 most weeks): April 2 8 am 73-105 CHS PERC Training Mr. Shaun Consiglio April 9 8 am 73-105 CHS SCORE Curriculum: Immunology/Tumor Biology April 16 8 am 73-105 CHS Dr. James Wu Dr. Sanjeet Patel Dr. Timothy Donahue Dr. David Chen Dr. Areti Tillou April 23 7 am 73-105 CHS “Acute Pain Management in the Elderly Postsurgical Patient” Dr. Natale Naim April 30 8 am 73-105 CHS Cardiothoracic Surgery Dr. Kalyanam Shivkumar Dr. Peyman Benharash Modular Conferences April 2 PG1-2 PG3-5 PERC Training Introduction to NAS and Milestone Project April 9 April 16 Jr. Skills Jr. Rounds Sr. Rounds Sr. Skills April 23 Leadership Series Session 4 (From top left) Christopher Childers (Northwestern University) Genia Dubrovsky (Stony Brook University Anaar Eastoak-Siletz (Northwestern University) Kent Garber (Harvard Medical School) Eric Kuo (Yale University) Amanda Maas (Emory University) Paul Winogard (Rush University) Preliminary Residents Garth Brandal (Medical College of Wisconsin) Haerin Lee (Vanderbilt University) Plastic Surgery Michael DeLong (Duke University) Gina Farias Eisner (Columbia University) Miles Pfaff (Yale University) Vascular Surgery April 30 Town Hall Meeting Dr. Neil Parker Meena Michael Archie (UCLA) Congratulations to Dr. Mitch Fink for the recent patent award from the USPTO – “Administration of an adsorbent polymer for the treatment of systemic inflammation”. Circulating pro-inflammatory cytokines, such as TNF or IL-1, are cleared by the liver and secreted in the bile. Systemic inflammation leads to cytokine reabsorption due to impaired enteric barrier. Microbeads can absorb cytokines from the enteric lumen and interrupt the entero-hepatic loop hence reducing systemic inflammation. This approach could be useful for the treatment of multisystem organ failure and autoimmune conditions. The absorbent beads are being developed for clinical trials. MATCH DAY 2014! Longmire Scientific Day 2014 Congratulations to Dr. Marcia McGory Russell who has received the 2014 Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract Career Development Award for Clinical Outcomes Education Research for her proposal “Impact of Surgical Technique on Quality of Life After Rectal Cancer Surgery: Patient Reported Outcomes in the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project Protocol R-04”. This is a $40,000 award over the next two years, and a real honor of distinction. Great job Dr. Russell! Announcements  The Society of University Surgeons announced the availability of two Resident Research Scholar Awards sponsored by unrestricted educational grants from KSEA and Ethicon. This fellowship is intended for surgical residents in any of the surgical disciplines who are doing research focused on surgical innovation, bioengineering, health services research or surgical education. One of the research awards is target for proposals utilizing new technologies. These are one-year awards of $30,000 and is open to surgical residents who have completed a minimum of two years of clinical training in the United States and agree to spend one or two years in full-time research with a SUS member. The funding period of the award is from July 1, 2014 – June 30, 2015.The electronic application must be submitted by April 30, 2014. http://www.susweb.org/sus-resident-scholaraward and www.SUSweb.info.  ACGME CEO Thomas J. Nasca, MD, MACP has written a letter to the graduate medical education (GME) community addressing the recent agreement among the ACGME, American Osteopathic Association (AOA), and the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) regarding a single accreditation system for all GME programs in the United States. http://www.acgme.org/acgmeweb/Portals/0/PDFs/Nasca LetterACGME-AOA-AACOMAgreementMarch2014.pdf Surgical Education Newsletter ● Issue 84● (310) 206-9291 From the Office of Surgical Education Department of Surgery UCLA School of Medicine Abstract Due Dates (These are approximate. Please check society websites for exact dates.) Organization Abstract due P.O. Box Southern Calif Vascular Surgical Society Jan 27 Los Angeles, CA 90095 Longmire Scientific Day Jan 31 310-206-9291 Shock Society Jan 31 www.surgery.ucla.edu/resident Peripheral Vascular Surgical Society Feb 23 American Association for Surgery of Trauma Mar 1 American College of Surgeons Mar 1 Western Vascular Society March Western Surgical Association Jun 1 Southern Surgical Association Jul 1 Eastern Association for Surgery of Trauma Jul 1 “If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?” John Wooden (1910-2010) Academic Surgical Congress Mid Aug Society of Thoracic Surgeons Jun Society of Critical Care Medicine Sep 1 Pacific Coast Surgical Association Sep 9 Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery Sept SCCACS Sep 18 SAGES Oct LA Surg Soc Resident Paper Competition Oct Western Trauma Association Oct 1 American Association of Thoracic Surgeons ACS Resident Trauma Paper Competition Surgical Education Week Oct Oct 1 Oct 15 American Society of Endocrine Surgeons Oct Southwestern Surgical Congress Oct Association of VA Surgeons Nov American Surgical Association Late Nov American Pediatric Surgical Association Oct American Society of Transplant Surgeons Oct American Society of Colorectal Surgeons Dec Caption describing picture or graphic. 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