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The Section of Academic Surgery (SAS) was formed in 2002 and now
has more than 100 members throughout Australia and New Zealand. The
overall goal is to promote academic surgery and to develop the
scholar/teacher professional competency. The Section also provides
an increasingly important link between the College and university
departments of surgery.
Objectives
- To develop and monitor standards in academic surgical
departments in Australia and New Zealand.
- To enhance career pathways in academic surgery and to encourage
younger surgeons to pursue opportunities in academic surgery.
- To develop an Australasian curriculum for undergraduate
surgery, which could be utilized to provide advice to Australian
and New Zealand medical schools regarding appropriate surgical
content, and which is appropriate for continuation to surgical
education and training.
- To advise Council on professional and policy issues
related to academic surgery, as well as issues of relevance to
surgery in general.
- To respond to requests from Council for consideration of
relevant issues.
- To establish and maintain a registry of academically active
members in order to support the Section's activities and plan
appropriate workforce issues.
Membership
Application for membership entails submitting a completed application form (PDF
50 KB) and emailing it to scholarships@surgeons.org
Membership of the Section is open to Fellows, Trainees and
International Medical Graduates (IMGs) on a pathway to Fellowship
who have an interest in academic surgery. The Executive Committee
of the Section can also offer membership to individuals who are
external to the College on recommendation from the Chair. Non
College members may have to pay a membership fee but will not have
voting rights and are not eligible to hold governance
positions.
Committee
After the 2012 Annual Business Meeting of the SAS, the following
Committee was endorsed:
Chair
Professor John Windsor
Vice Chair
Professor Guy Maddern
Members
Professor Chris Christophi
Professor Mark Smithers
Professor Robert Thomas
Mr Richard Hanney
Professor Julian Smith
Professor John McCall
Developing a Career in Academic Surgery (DCAS) Representative:
Associate Professor Andrew Hill
Surgical Research Society of Australasia (SRS) Representative:
Professor Leigh Delbridge
Younger Fellows Representative: Dr Jason Chuen
Trainees' Association (RACSTA) Representative: Dr Deborah
Wright
Chair, Section of Research, Audit and Academic Surgery: A/Professor
Ian Bennett
Board of Surgical Education and Training (BSET) Representative: Mr
Philip Truskett
Academy of Surgical Educators Representative: A/Professor Stephen
Tobin
Medical student representative: Wilson Petrushnko
Functional relationships
Through linkages within the College and through representation
on the Executive Committee the Section of Academic Surgery has
functional relationships with the:
Resources
Health Research Funding Organisations in Australia and New
Zealand
Please see the link to the Guide to Health Research Funding Organisations
which provides an overview of health-related research funding
opportunities in Australia and New Zealand.
Key activities and dates
Developing a Career in Academic Surgery (DCAS) Course
This annual one day course provides advice and resources for SET
Trainees, early career academics and younger Fellows who want to
develop their research and teaching competencies. Provided by
outstanding hand-picked academic surgeon role models, this course
has been opened up to interested pre-vocational doctors and medical
students, with 15 complimentary places provided annually for the
latter by competitive selection through application. With the DCAS
course scheduled the day before the ASC, students staying overnight
to attend the opening day of the Congress are also offered a
concessional one day registration for that day.
In 2013 the course will be held on Monday 6 May
at the Skycity Convention Centre, Auckland, New Zealand.
2013 Provisional
Program
Please download the
DCAS 2013 Medical Student Application form here.For more
information on the 2013 DCAS Course, which will be held in
Auckland, New Zealand, please contact academic.surgery@surgeons.org
Section of Academic Surgery (SAS) - Annual Meeting of
Academic
Departments
This annual meeting is designed to bring academic surgeons
together to discuss issues of common interest. Past themes have
been Revitalising Academic Surgical Departments (2008), Becoming
and Surviving as Academic Surgeons (2009), Developing RACS -
University Collaborations (2010) and Improving Training Pathways
for Academic Surgeons in Australia and New Zealand in 2011.
There will be the opportunity to attend a dinner on the Thursday
evening. The 2012 meeting is being held on Thursday 8 November
2012, in Adelaide. Call for abstracts has commenced, with a
closing date of 24 September 2012. More details are available by
contacting academic.surgery@surgeons.org
Annual Scientific Meeting of the
Surgical Research Society of
Australasia (SRS)
The SRS has a long history and has provided the best forum for
the presentation of original research by Trainees and is strongly
supported by the Section of Academic Surgery (SAS). This annual
meeting is held in conjunction with the Section of Academic
Surgery - Annual Meeting of Academic Departments. More
information and abstracts from previous meetings can be found on The Australasian Surgical Research
Society page on the ANZ Journal of Surgery website.
At the SRS meeting a Young Investigator Award of A$4000 will be
offered to sponsor the recipient to attend the Association for
Academic Surgery Annual Scientific Meeting in the United States to
present their work. In addition, four travel grants (A$750
each) will be offered as well as an award to attend the Developing
a Career in Academic Surgery (DCAS) course at the ASC.
The 2012 meeting will be held on Friday 9 November 2012, in
Adelaide. Please click
here to see the advertisement. Call for abstracts has
commenced, with a closing date of 24 September 2012. Click
here for registration form and abstract information.
Association for Academic Surgery (AAS) Fall Courses - USA
These courses are of interest to junior faculty, Fellows,
residents and medical students.
For more information, visit the Association for Academic
Surgery website and select Fall Courses.
If you have any questions, please contact the AAS
Registrar at registration@aasurg.org
or call +1 310-437-1606, ext 128.
Fostering the relationship with the Association of Academic
Surgery
One of the missions of the Association of Academic Surgeons (AAS) is to
promote academic surgery around the world. Through the generous
support of Johnson & Johnson Medical it has been possible to
have AAS visitors to the DCAS course, the Younger Fellows Forum,
the Annual Scientific Congress, and to several centres around
ANZ. The AAS invites a member of the SAS to give a
state-of-the-art lecture and they invite the winner of the SRS
Young Investigator Award to give their winning presentation at the
AAS Annual Scientific Congress.
Fostering the relationship with medical students
A number of Surgical Interest Groups have developed in Schools
of Medicine and these are being linked by the Surgical Interest
Network (SurgIN). The Australian Medical Student's Association and
New Zealand Medical Students Association have been invited to
nominate one person to represent them on the Executive Committee. A
number of registrations will be provided to the DCAS course.
Contact
Section of Academic Surgery Secretariat
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
199 Ward Street
North Adelaide SA 5069 Australia
Telephone: +61 8 8219 0900
Fax: +61 8 8219 0999
Email: academic.surgery@surgeons.org