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Vascular Surgery Residents

This area is designed to give Vascular Surgery Residents (fellows) direct access to valuable vascular surgery career resources.

Career Resources

• Find a vascular surgeon mentor
• SVS Candidate Membership
• Vascular Surgery Jobs

Curriculum Resources

• Association of Program Directors in Vascular Surgery (APDVS)
• OR-Live - Web casts of basic vascular cases
• Vascular Surgery Curriculum
• Vascular Surgery Qualifying Exam and VSITE
• VESAP 1 - SVS' Vascular Education and Self-Assessment Program Study Guide
  

Meetings and Events

• List of upcoming meetings and events of interest to residents

Podcasts and Videos

• Monthly podcasts on vascular surgery topics
• Videos of vascular surgeons discussing their careers
• History of vascular surgery video
• Video presentation of the "How to Review A Scientific Paper for JVS: A View from the Editors' Desk" session from the 2008 Vascular Annual Meeting

Professional Organizations

• American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin - Offers resident section and various resources
• American College of Surgeons - Offers resident membership and various resources for residents interested in surgery
• American Medical Association- Offers resident membership and various resources
• American Medical Women's Association- Offers resident membership and various resources
• Association of Women Surgeons- Offers resident membership and various resources such as a pocket mentor manual for women interested in a career in surgery  
• Chinese American Medical Society - Offers resident membership and various resources
• Chinese American Physician's Society - Offers scholarships and various resources
• National Arab-American Medical Association - Offers membership and various resources
• National Hispanic Medical Association - Offers membership, scholarship, mentorship and resources 
• National Medical Association - Offers resident membership and various resources for African American physicians

Publications

• Online edition of Vascular Specialist
• Current and archived issues of student and resident e-newsletter, On the Cutting Edge
• Medscape- Resources such as blogs and articles on general surgery and vascular surgery
• PubMed  - A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.

Research Resources

• Lifeline Resident Research Prize
• NIH Research Resources - Use the NIH RePORT to find research, data and analyses of NIH research and development activities, such as award trends and success rates. Use CRISP to find out what research is being done in a particular area.
• Research opportunities
• Vascular research graduate training programs and fellowships

Training Program Resources

• Open vascular resident positions
• AMA residency/fellowship open vacancies