By: Alison Case, MD, AMSA Education and Advocacy Fellow Within the last week, a number of news outlets reported the results of the Flexibility in Duty Hour Requirements for Surgical Trainees (FIRST) trial, carried out in more than one hundred general surgery training programs across the U.S. Headlines such as, “Longer Surgical Resident Shifts Pose…
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AMSA Joins TPP Protest in New York
AMSA joins Flush the TPP and other partners this week to protest the Trans-Pacific Partnership in Washington DC and New York. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a gigantic trade agreement involving 12 countries and 40% of the world’s GDP. The agreement was recently finalized and the text has finally been made public after years of…
Journal of a Bird-dogger
June 5, 2015 A hotel parking lot somewhere outside Chicago It is 1:30AM when we finally roll up to the parking lot of the hotel where we pick up the final member of our bird-dog crew. Our final destination is Des Moines, Iowa, the site of our first event of the weekend, a meet and greet…
