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✈️ AWS Joint Sponsored Travel Awards – Now Open!

Medical students & residents can apply for up to $750 to attend the 2025 AWS Annual Conference in Chicago, Oct 3–4.

In partnership with:
💟 AOSA
💟 LSS
💟 SAAS
💟 SBAS

Apply now → womensurgeons.org/joint-travel-awards

ACS H.O.P.E. Resident Scholarship for Clinical Congress 2025 Can Grow Skills in Global Surgery This scholarship will further the professional growth of 10 surgical residents with a keen interest in global health by providing them with an opportunity to attend the specialized Didactic Course at…

ACS Health Outreach Program for Equity in Global Surgery (ACS H.O.P.E.) is accepting applications for the ACS H.O.P.E. Resident Scholarship Award to attend #ACSCC25!

Resident Members who are interested in global health should apply by June 2! @ras-acs.bsky.social

A PDF calendar of trainee events at surgical education week in May 2025

A PDF calendar of trainee events at surgical education week in May 2025

From the @surgicaleducation.bsky.social Trainee Committee leadership team, check out our trainee-focused event calendar for the 2025 Surgical Education Week!

Less than one month until #SEW2025 y’all 👀 can’t wait to see you there!

It’s almost International Women’s Day- Let’s talk about 3 vaccinations that are critical for women’s health in low- resource settings.

Some diseases have far greater negative consequences in women and girls, especially during pregnancy & childbirth. www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/3-vac...

If you're not up to date, for obvious reasons, PLEASE GO GET YOUR VACCINES NOW.

It’s hard to know what to say about RFK Jr that hasn’t been said already. We tried to warn everyone. Even his own family tried to prevent his confirmation. Yet our “leaders” are determined to please a man who paints his face orange, even if it costs American lives, and here we are.

Today, we celebrate Black Women Physicians' Day, honouring Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler’s 1864 milestone as the first Black female physician in the U.S.

Forever grateful to stand on the shoulders of giants and to continue paving the way for greater diversity and inclusion in Medicine.
#BHM #Blacksky

Congratulations to all of our future Urologists and Ophthalmologists! #MatchDay2025

LISTEN: Surgeons’ Moral Contract Is Changing Listen to Dr. Mark Weissler discuss changes in autonomy and self-regulation for surgeons are altering their moral contract.

Highly recommend this @facs.org lecture podcast from Dr Mark Weissler, jampacked with wisdom about the tension between doctor autonomy to keep the Hippocratic oath vs the (over)burdens of regulatory and workplace demands. Oh, and the fallacy of individual #burnout 🔥. A great listen!

Kicking off #BlackHistoryMonth  w/ an appreciation thread of physicians:

1/ Charles R. Drew, MD

- American surgeon & researcher
- pioneer in the field of blood transfusions
- developed techniques for blood storage
- first African-American surgeon to examine for @facs.org

ACOG Endorsed The following documents have ACOG’s endorsement and are listed in order of endorsed date.

The American College of OB/GYN’s website is now hosting the critical documents purged by the CDC

This is what every professional medical organization should be doing right now

#MedSky

www.acog.org/clinical/cli...

How Should Health Care and Public Health Respond to the New US Administration? This Viewpoint discusses scientific, medical, and public health actions, including withdrawing from the World Health Organization, taken so far during the first week of the Trump administration.

Silence is not an option.

A worthy read in @jama.com for every physician and scientist

How should healthcare and public health respond to this new administration?

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Confession: I hate the fact that I am so angry all the time nowadays. It's exhausting.

Warren Questions Bessent Over Musk Access to Treasury Payment System In a letter to the Treasury secretary, the Democratic senator warned against meddling with a system that processes trillions of dollars of transactions.

Senator Elizabeth Warren sent a letter on Monday to the Treasury secretary demanding answers for why the Dept. of Government Efficiency was granted access to the federal payments system, giving Elon Musk's team a powerful tool that could be used to track and potentially limit government spending.

How Should Health Care and Public Health Respond to the New US Administration? This Viewpoint discusses scientific, medical, and public health actions, including withdrawing from the World Health Organization, taken so far during the first week of the Trump administration.

"To condone policies that the profession knows will compromise health—or to remain silent and look away—is to be complicit in putting population health at risk"

To every university, every public hospital, every academic society: SILENCE IS NOT AN OPTION. #medsky

🏆Calling all #GetOffYourAAS teams! The #BestTeamName challenge is ON!🔥

To participate:
1. Post a pic of your team getting active or enjoying wellness activities.
2. Use your team # and #GetOffYourAAS.
3. Show off your team name and why it's the best!

The most creative team wins! 🏅

This National Mentoring Month, AWS members paid tribute to the mentors who shaped their careers and professional growth. Each mentor was recognized with a gift to the AWS Foundation in their honor, ensuring their legacy continues.

Honor your mentor: www.womensurgeons.org/donate-now

Recognize Your Altruistic Peers and Trainees with Nominations for Volunteerism Awards Nominate surgeons for their volunteerism, sustainable academic activities, and humanitarian efforts by March 17.

We are accepting nominations for the 2025 Surgical Volunteerism and Humanitarian Awards! Recognize a surgeon who has made significant contributions to surgical care through organized volunteer work.

🗓️: All nominations must be submitted by March 17.

I hope all the women who voted for Trump remember this the next time they have a health problem we lack the tools to address. Women are half the population, but to this administration, we’re just “DEI”

Some good news amidst the rest of the news. The Palisades and Eaton fires are now fully contained.

Hey if you are on research gate, upload pdfs of your papers. We may lose pubmed

i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there

Workshops Information about workshops at the 2025 ACS Leadership and Advocacy Summit.

Attending the 2025 ACS Leadership & Advocacy Summit? Kick off #ACSLAS25 with an educational workshop on Saturday, April 5.

This year's workshops will explore building trust, communications, and lifelong surgical competency.

View the details ⤵️

Learn How to Write a Successful Abstract with Free Webinar Learn directly from the committee about the elements members look for when reviewing abstracts and building sessions for the ACS Clinical Congress each year.

Ready to become a pro abstract author? 🤔 Join the ACS Scientific Forum Committee for a 1-hour webinar, “Writing a Successful Abstract: Tips for Submitting to the ACS Scientific Forum and Beyond."

🗓️: Monday, February 3 | 6:00 pm CT

Sign the Petition Medical Students and Residents OPPOSE ICE Activity Near Schools and Healthcare Facilities!

Attention #Medsky! The Latino Medical Student Association is circulating a petition to call on professional medical organizations to stand up to ICE re: rescinding their “Protected Areas” policy.

This needs a massive signal boost. Let’s #STANDUPTOICE and get as many signatures on here as possible.

Hey #Latinsky and #Blacksky, would really appreciate it if we can get signatures and signal boosts on this petition!

We’re calling on medical orgs to stand up to ICE rescinding their “Protected Areas” policy that would let ICE agents raid hospitals, schools, and places of worship.

Vamos, familia!!

If any med students or residents follow me, here’s a petition to consider signing regarding the reasons ICE shouldn’t be allowed in healthcare settings

BREAKING: The White House rescinded President Trump's order to freeze all federal funding, including grants for public health, education, and safety.

This cruel order would have devastated communities across the country.

Text reads: Stand with refugees and people forced from home. Stand with people demanding access to safe abortion care. Stand with people whose health is impacted by climate change. Stand with people facing health inequities due to racism and discrimination. Stand with vulnerable people everywhere.

Hi Bluesky community! We're excited to be here to share important humanitarian stories.

Would you let your network know where to find us? This is just a snapshot of what we stand for as an emergency medical organization:

part of the reason just antivaxxing questions is such a toxic strategy is that these “questions” HAVE BEEN ROBUSTLY ANSWERED

the best case is wasting massive resources and really it’s just a pretext to sow vaccine hesitancy and hurt children, the elderly and
people with disabilities, etc