Career | Career Challenges | Financial | Family | Wellness | Residency | Videos | Collaborations 

Mentoring

Check out the AWS searchable membership directory for members interested in mentoring.  This is only accessible for members. A mentor search can be done by geography, specialty or stage in your career. If you would like to become an AWS mentor, update your member profile in the members only section.

• Strategies for Building an Effective Mentoring Relationship (CDR)
• Mentorship Program Designed to Advance Women in Academic Surgery (PDF)

Articles

Career

• AWS Career Center
• Finding and Keeping Your Job as a Surgeon: Maximizing Success (PDF)
• An International Road to Surgery: An interview with Dr. Anna Riemen (eConnections)
• Success as a Surgeon: An Interview with Dr. Nancy Gantt (eConnections)
• Writing Nomination Letters, Elizabeth Travis, MD (PDF)
• Personal Entrepreneurship, Kathy Korman Frey (Slide Share)

Career Challenges

• Avoiding Unconcious Bias: a guide for surgeons (PDF)
• Code of Ethics
• Surgeon Burnout (PDF)
• Whack! I’ve Hit the Glass Ceiling! Women’s Efforts to Gain Status in Surgery (Link)
• Progress: Promoting Gender Equality In Surgery: Report of the Gender Diversity Short Life Working Group (PDF)

Financial

• Financial Planning: Outline for 2014 AWS Conference (PDF)
• Financial Planning: Dialogue from 2014 AWS Conference (PDF)
• Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Presentation from 2014 AWS Conference (PDF)

Family

• AWS Statement on Supporting Surgical Trainees Who are Breastfeeding (Link)
• Pregnancy and Motherhood During Surgical Training Article (PDF)
• AWS Family Leave Policies – Practicing Surgeons | Residents
• American Academy of Pediatrics Family Leave Policy (Link)
• American Academy Family Physicians Family Leave Policy (Link)
• AWS Statement on Intimate Partner Violence (PDF)

Wellness

• Effective Management of Stress, Fitness and Nutrition during a Surgical Residency (PDF)
• Wellness and Personal Life (PDF)

Residency

• AWS Resident Section
• AWS Resident & Medical Student Facebook Page (Members Only) (Link)
• AWS Pocket Mentor (Eng/Span)
• Surgical Council on Resident Education (SCORE)
• ABSITE Guide Link
• On Surgical Inspiration, Mentorship, and Managing Life as a Resident: An Interview with Prathima Nandivada (eConnections)
• Resident and Associate Society of the American College of Surgeons (RAS) (Link)
• RAS Facebook page (Link)
• Association of American Medical Colleges Debt Management Resources (Link)
• American Association of University Women (AAUW) Free Online Salary Negotiation Workshop (Link). Self-paced online course designed to empower women with the essential skills and confidence they need to negotiate fair pay and determine their market worth based on skills, experience, performance, qualifications, and responsibilities on the job.
• AAUW Promotional Toolkit (PDF) to share across your surgical network.

Clinical Practice Committee Resources

A list of resources and tools compiled by the Clinical Practice Committee, including an educational resource library divided by level of training, is available here.

Videos

Women Are Surgeons – Produced in collaboration with the National Institute of Health (24 mins). Encourages young girls to enter the field of surgery.

Three Firsts: Women Pioneers In American Surgery (55 mins) Documents the lives and careers of three women pioneers in American surgery: Alma Dea Morani, MD, the first female plastic/reconstructive surgeon, Nina Starr Braunwald, MD, the first female cardiac surgeon and a deputy NIH director, and Olga Jonasson, MD, a leader in the American College of Surgeons and the first female chair of an academic department of surgery.

Collaborations

National Women’s History Museum (NWHM)

AWS is a member of the NWHM National Coalition, a group of national, predominantly women’s organizations that support the mission of the NWHM to illuminate “the role of women in transforming society and [encouraging] all people, women and men, to participate in democratic dialogue about our future.” There was no financial obligation in AWS joining the Coalition.