#183 Surgeon Writers: Dr. Lillian Kao on Schwartz's Principles of Surgery and Advice for Authors/Reviewers
Frequent friend of BTK, Dr. Lillian Kao (@LillianKao1) is the first female editor of Schwartz's Principles of Surgery and joins us to talk about her experience with editorial duties. She gives us great advice on authorship and how to get into editorial roles and reviewing papers. This episode is part of our collaboration with AccessSurgery so look out for the quiz about this episode on Wednesd...
43m Jul 15, 2019
43m
#10 Annals of Surgery Journal Club Series: Drs. Heniford and Telem discuss ventral hernia repair
Title: Annals of Surgery Journal Club #10: Ventral Hernia Repair   Join us for our 10th joint Journal Club with Annals of Surgery. This time our guest author is Dr. Todd Heniford, Chief of GI and Minimally Invasive Surgery at Carolinas Medical Center, director of the Carolinas Hernia institute, and a well-known expert in the field of abdominal wall resection. We also have a guest moderator, ...
36m Jul 08, 2019
36m
ACPGBI Day 3 @ Dublin
In this episode we hear from the President Elect, President of Dukes' Club and Dr. John Monson. Enjoy!
33m Jul 04, 2019
33m
ACPGBI Day 2 @ Dublin
ACPGBI Day 2: Excellent interviews with Dr. Brendan Moran, Dr. Dale Vimalachandran, Dr. Ian Jenkins, Dr. Roel Hompes and more. We talked about TA-TME, advanced rectal cancer, pelvic recurrences, and watch and wait lecture by Dr. Per Nilson. Enjoy!
1hr 45m Jul 03, 2019
1hr 45m
ACPGBI- Colorectal Conference Day 1 @ Dublin
Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland Annual Conference 2019 @ Dublin, Ireland. Dr. Steele and Shreya cohost live from Dublin. Great recap and highlights from Day 1, interviews with world experts, lecture by Dr. Mike Solomon, and innovations and research talks with trainees. Enjoy!
52m Jul 02, 2019
52m
#182: Dr. Morrow on Breast Disease
Dr. Monica Morrow is THE expert on breast cancer and gives us a very thorough discussion of the most confusing topics in the management of breast cancer and axillary disease. This is a must listen for all residents and general surgeons alike!
52m Jun 23, 2019
52m
#181: Dr. Jonathan Hernandez discusses Surgical Oncology Fellowship Match and cutting edge cancer research
This very timely podcast post Surgical Oncology match discusses some key findings on the match process and takes us into the future of oncology research and how surgeons are making history.
46m Jun 17, 2019
46m
Dr. Jason Bingham on Beyond Clean Podcast
Ever wondered how Behind the Knife came to fruition? Jason was a guest on Beyond Clean (@BeyondCleanInfo (https://twitter.com/BeyondCleanInfo) ), a podcast about surgical instrument processing, and spends a few minutes answering that question. Most of us don't pay attention to what happens to our instruments after we use them in the OR, so take a listen to Beyond Clean and their well-made podca...
32m Jun 09, 2019
32m
Annals of Surgery Journal Club #9: Resident Autonomy
Join us for our 9th joint Journal Club with Annals of Surgery. This time our guest author is Dr. Elizabeth Elsey, a general surgery chief resident in in the UK's East Midlands, and a former PhD fellow of the UK’s National Institute for Health Research (@lizzyelsey).    We are also joined by guest host Dr. Brian George, Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Michigan, as well as the...
50m Jun 03, 2019
50m
#APSA50: Robert Gross Debate - Pros/Cons of Pediatric Surgery
Woo Do (@woosongdo) and Meghana Kashyap (@PubMEG) cover the American Pediatric Surgical Association's 50th Anniversary Meeting. In this episode, we hear experts debate the pros and cons of the profession of pediatric surgery, as they seek to answer the question: "Would I encourage my daughter or son to become a pediatric surgeon?"
56m Jun 02, 2019
56m
#APSA50: Pediatric Surgery's Historical Figures - Keith Ashcraft
Woo Do (@woosongdo) and Meghana Kashyap (@PubMEG) cover the American Pediatric Surgical Association's 50th Anniversary Meeting. In this episode, we hear from Dr. Keith Ashcraft, one of pediatric surgery's key historical figures.
19m Jun 02, 2019
19m
#APSA50: Pediatric Surgery's Historical Figures - Arnold Coran
Woo Do (@woosongdo) and Meghana Kashyap (@PubMEG) cover the American Pediatric Surgical Association's 50th Anniversary Meeting. In this episode, we hear from Dr. Arnold Coran, one of pediatric surgery's key historical figures.
42m Jun 02, 2019
42m
#APSA50: Benji Brooks and the Patient Experience
Woo Do (@woosongdo) and Meghana Kashyap (@PubMEG) cover the American Pediatric Surgical Association's 50th Anniversary Meeting. In this episode, we have a panel of leaders in pediatric surgery who happen to be women - Dr. Kathryn Anderson, Dr. Diana Farmer (@dianafarmermd), and Dr. Marion Henry (@mcwhmd). They talk about Benji Brooks, the first female pediatric surgeon, and how APSA has diversi...
54m May 31, 2019
54m
#APSA50: Pioneers Alberto Pena and Donald Nuss
Woo Do (@woosongdo) and Meghana Kashyap (@PubMEG) cover the American Pediatric Surgical Association's 50th Anniversary Meeting. In this episode, we hear from pioneers who revolutionized the care of children with anorectal malformations (Dr. Alberto Pena @DrsPenaBischoff) and pectus excavatum (Dr. Donald Nuss).
44m May 30, 2019
44m
#APSA50: Top Educational Content
Woo Do (@woosongdo) and Meghana Kashyap (@PubMEG) cover the American Pediatric Surgical Association's 50th Anniversary Meeting. In this episode, we hear from leaders showcasing the Journal of Pediatric Surgery (@jpedsurg) Top Educational Content (TEC): - Dr. David Powell (pedsurglibrary.com) on 2018’s TEC - Dr. Aaron Jensen (@arjensenmd) on pediatric cervical spine management - Dr. Shawn Rangel...
1hr 14m May 29, 2019
1hr 14m
#APSA50: Academic Surgery and Resident Autonomy
Woo (@woosongdo) and Meghana (@PubMEG) sit down with Dr. Allan Goldstein (@MGHPedisurg) to talk about the surgeon-scientist and how a young surgeon can become a successful academic surgeon (https://t.co/PJdjl0BQyP) (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6298819/) . Dr. Todd Ponsky (@tponsky) talks about the development of the Stay Current in Pediatric Surgery app and podcast as a means t...
31m May 28, 2019
31m
#APSA50: Introduction to the Series
Woo Do (@woosongdo) and Meghana Kashyap (@PubMEG) joined forces in Boston to cover the American Pediatric Surgery Association's 50th Anniversary Meeting. We will be publishing episodes from the meeting throughout the week in our #APSA50 Series. We hope you follow along to hear some incredible insight and interviews with pioneers and leaders of pediatric surgery.
3m May 27, 2019
3m
Grand Rounds: Pediatric Bilious Emesis with Dr. Diesen
Kicking off APSA week, we begin with a Grand Rounds installment. Dr. Diana Diesen, pediatric surgeon at Dallas Children's Hospital, presents everything you need to know about bilious emesis in the pediatric population. This is high yield information for those pediatric surgery questions on ABSITE, and simplified enough for rotating medical students to understand as well. Enjoy!
39m May 19, 2019
39m
SECOND TRIAL: Introduction to the a much anticipated long term study with Dr. Hu
SECOND trial follows up on FIRST trial. Listen in to get the details on the structure and outcomes anticipated from this trial. Send in your queries or comments at the email address below: second@northwestern.edu For more information: www.secondtrial.org (http://www.secondtrial.org/)
43m May 13, 2019
43m
Annals of Surgery Journal Club Series # 8: Malpractice Claims in Management of Benign Biliary Disease
Join us for our 8th joint Journal Club with Annals of Surgery, and the last episode of our series on malpractice. This time our guests are Dr. Rajshri Gartland, a resident at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Dr. Keith Lillemoe, the Chief of Surgery at MGH and Editor-in-Chief of Annals of Surgery.    They co-authored a new study on the prevalence and risk factors for malpractice claims around...
32m May 05, 2019
32m
Malpractice Series #4: Q&A with Dr. Ruth Bush
In the penultimate episode of our malpractice series, we interview Dr. Ruth Bush (@RuthLBush) who obtained her JD and provides insight on malpractice from the surgeon's perspective. As a bonus at the end, we Dr. Rolando Pinchetti (@rfap3) from Argentina joins us to talk about malpractice in his country.
55m Apr 25, 2019
55m
Malpractice Series #3: Case Reports with Dan Cavett
Up next in our Malpractice Series, Dan Cavett from Cavvett & Fulton, P.C. (https://www.cavettandfulton.com/) joins us to provide real life cases he has defended and provide further advice on insurance and patient relations. This episode is full of scenarios relevant to our surgical sub-specialty colleagues, including Ob/Gyn and Neurosurgery, so we hope everyone learns something new!
48m Apr 22, 2019
48m
Malpractice Series #2: Dr. Death with Laura Biel
Continuing in our Malpractice Series, we have Laura Biel (@LJBeil) on to talk about Dr. Death (@DrDeathWondery) and the lessons the podcast and case revealed about our healthcare system and physician peer reporting. If you haven't listened to the podcast, we strongly recommend listening to it prior to this episode (https://t.co/ltmr3gsHpo). An interesting read mentioned in this episode is the D...
37m Apr 15, 2019
37m
Malpractice Series #1: Q&A with Michelle Ator
Michelle Ator is a medical malpractice attorney in Arkansas. She joins us for the first installment of our malpractice series to explain the fundamentals of malpractice litigation. If you have any follow up questions for her, she can be reached at mator@fridayfirm.com. The Medscape report mentioned in the intro: https://www.medscape.com/slideshow/2017-malpractice-report-6009206#1
44m Apr 08, 2019
44m
Annals of Surgery Journal Club #7: New Approaches to Pancreatic Necrosis
Join us for our 7th joint Journal Club with Annals of Surgery. This time our guest is Dr. Chad Ball, a hepatobiliary and acute care surgeon and Associate Professor at the University of Calgary.    He has pioneered a new single-stage approach for walled off pancreatic necrosis, "surgical transgastric necrosectomy," described in this Annals paper:  https://journals.lww.com/annalsofsurgery/Abstrac...
37m Apr 01, 2019
37m
#180: Dr. Charles Yeo discusses Whipple and much more
Dr. Charles Yeo, Chairman at SKMC at Thomas Jefferson University, discusses pancreatic cancer and shares his pearls of wisdom of the performing a Mini-Whipple in this enjoyable and informative episode.
1hr 5m Mar 25, 2019
1hr 5m
#179: Dr. Rebecca Sippel discuss Endocrine Surgery
 Dr. Rebecca Sippel discusses a whole range of endocrine pathologies in this very educational episode! Dominate the day
56m Mar 18, 2019
56m
#178: Dr. Jeffrey Marks on MIS, POEM, ERCP and more
Dr. Jeffrey Marks, President of SAGES, walks us through the past, present and future of Minimally Invasive Surgery. He is one of the internationally known surgeons who leads advancements in the field like POEM. He gives us his views on surgical residency education and his tips/tricks on ERCP. Enjoy!
39m Mar 04, 2019
39m
Annals of Surgery: Leadership in American Surgery, Women are rising to the top
Join us for the 6th episode of our Journal Club with Annals of Surgery. This time we interview Dr. Susan Pories, of Harvard Medical School and Mt. Auburn Hospital, about her paper: Leadership in American Surgery: Women are Rising to the Top, coming out in Annals in February 2019. Coauthored with Drs. Patricia Turner, Caprice Greenberg, Maya Babu, and Sareh Parangi, the paper describes the rapid...
29m Feb 25, 2019
29m
BTK ABSITE #26: DO NOT OPEN UNTIL ON YOUR WAY TO ABSITE
Recorded a few years ago for ABSITE and one of our first reviews, but these are truly your tips and tricks to get you those few extra points! Thanks everyone for all the support through ABSITE season. The hard part is over, now you just have to take the test.
48m Jan 20, 2019
48m
BTK ABSITE #24: Surgical Potpourri
We review high-yield miscellaneous topics for the ABSITE, including: peritoneal dialysis catheters, sarcoma, and melanoma.
30m Jan 20, 2019
30m
BTK ABSITE 2019 Introduction
3m Dec 28, 2018
3m
#177: Surgical Education Mini-Series Part 2
In the second part of our education mini-series, we had Dr. Lau (@jnlau67) discuss his recent RISE article on medical student mistreatment. https://www.facs.org/education/division-of-education/publications/rise/articles/student-mistreatment
30m Dec 20, 2018
30m
#176: Surgical Education Mini-Series Part 1
As we wind down the year and gear up for ABSITE episodes, we wanted to end with tips on surgical education in our two-part mini-series. This first episode is with Dr. PJ Schenarts (@Schenartspj) on education during surgical crises.
33m Dec 20, 2018
33m
#175: Controversies in Surgical Education with Dr. John Potts
Dr. Potts is a leader in surgical education, having taken on roles with the American Board of Surgery and currently with the ACGME. He is known to be open with his thoughts on surgical education, so we posed him some tough questions about 'Controversies in Surgical Education'. We hope you enjoy these stimulating topics!
40m Dec 16, 2018
40m
#174 Dr. Bass on ACS, Surgical Simulation, and Breast Abscesses
Better late than never...we interviewed Dr. Bass (@ACSPastPrez98) prior to Clinical Congress and discussed her Presidency, the surgical simulation center she started at Houston Methodist, women in surgery, and breast abscesses.
1hr 1m Dec 12, 2018
1hr 1m
Annals of Surgery Journal Club: Minimally Invasive Pancreatic Surgery with Dr. Mark Besselink
Join us for the 5th episode of our joint Journal Club series with Annals of Surgery. This time our guest is Dr. Mark Besselink, Professor at the University of Amsterdam and founder of the Dutch Pancreatic Cancer Study Group.    He led two new, practice-changing studies on laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy:    1) DIPLOMA, an observational study of laparoscopic vs. open distal pancreatectomy for...
24m Dec 10, 2018
24m
#173: Dr. Thomas White on Rib Fixation
Dr. Thomas White joins us on behalf of the Chest Wall Injury Society to discuss the newest recommendations for rib fixation after chest trauma and the studies that back these recommendations. You can hear more from him on the CWIS Ribcasts at https://cwisociety.org/ribcasts/
38m Dec 05, 2018
38m
#172: Dr. Betsy Tuttle-Newhall on Abdominal Transplant
We have another great abdominal transplant episode with Dr. Betsy Tuttle (@tuttlejebetsy), chair of surgery at East Carolina University. She goes through the very basics of transplant surgery, from the immunosuppressive medications to the behind the scenes process of organ donation. We hope this helps as you rev up your ABSITE studying!
48m Dec 03, 2018
48m
#171: Diverticulitis Grand Rounds with Dr. Sean Langenfeld
Continuing in our Grand Round series, we have a presentation by Dr. Langenfeld (@SeanLangenfeld) to discuss uncomplicated diverticulitis. Dr. Langenfeld is Chief of Colorectal Surgery at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Hope this helps as you rev up for ABSITE studying!
22m Nov 19, 2018
22m
Annals of Surgery- Comprehensive Complication Index
Clavien-Diendo Classification is familiar to all of us! We have Dr. Clavien here discussing his most recent work, comprehensive complication index. Click on the link below to access the paper: https://journals.lww.com/annalsofsurgery/Abstract/2018/11000/The_Comprehensive_Complication_Index__CCI___is_a.12.aspx
31m Nov 11, 2018
31m
#170: Dr. Ferrada on Image-Based Resuscitation
In this episode, we interview Dr. Paula Ferrada (@pferrada1) and cover a wealth of topics pertinent to trauma/critical care and surgical education. Her passion and optimism shines through, and we hope this episode motivates you as much as it did us!
46m Oct 29, 2018
46m
#169: Association for Women Surgeons 2018
Meghana and Shreya attended the Association for Women Surgeons 2018 annual conference and interviewed leaders of the organization- Dr. Celeste Hollands (@celestehollands), Dr. Sareh Parangi (@sarehparangiMD), and Dr. Sharon Stein (@slsteinMD1). We also spoke with Dr. Smita Sihag (@ssihag_msk) about her research and Professor Robert Bordone (@bobbordone) about the negotiation skills session he l...
45m Oct 22, 2018
45m
Annals of Surgery Journal Club: Dr. Ron Maier
Continuing with our Annals of Surgery Journal Club series, episode #3 is with Dr. Ron Maier, who joins us to discuss his presidential address. We are excited to publish this episode as Dr. Maier officially takes over as ACS president this month! Here are links to his articles: 1. https://journals.lww.com/annalsofsurgery/Citation/2018/09000/Our_Calling.2.aspx 2. https://journals.lww.com/annals...
32m Oct 17, 2018
32m
#168 Surgical Oncology- Dr. Jeremy Davis
Want to be a surgical oncologist? Want to be a surgeon-scientist? Are you a junior resident who wants to do research? Or just want to know what CDH-1 is? Listen up to this informative episode featuring Dr. Jeremy Davis, Surgeon-in-Chief at National Institutes of Health, as he discusses all these topics and much more. Fellowship in Surgical Oncology at NIH: https://ccr.cancer.gov/training/cli...
50m Oct 08, 2018
50m
#167 Mock Orals: Colorectal
Just in time for oral boards, we have another episode of our Mock Orals series. Dr. Langenfeld (@seanlangenfeld) takes our guest residents Jon Abelson (@jabelsonmd) and Paul Johnson (@dr_johnson2012) through 6 colorectal board scenarios.
1hr 1m Oct 01, 2018
1hr 1m
Most Common and Most Feared Oral Board Surgical Descriptions
We are two days before our oral boards, and this is what we are going to say for our surgical descriptions. We hope you find these helpful. Big thanks to Geb Black, a Major in the US Army, and a trauma fellow at UT Southwestern. & Matt Smith a vascular surgery fellow at Cornell/Columbia combined fellowship in NYC.
37m Sep 30, 2018
37m
#165 Grand Rounds: Melanoma with Dr. Jennifer LaFemina
Dr. Jennifer LaFemina leads our second grand rounds series with a wonderful update on the treatment and management of Melanoma. Dr. LaFemina practices at UMass and is the Program Director of General Surgery as well as an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. As mentioned, if anyone has other great ideas for topics and guests to lead our Grand Rounds series ple...
43m Sep 26, 2018
43m
#164 Dr. Tomoaki Kato on Multi-Visceral Transplant Surgery
Dr. Tomoaki Kato is a true pioneer in multi-visceral transplant surgery. In this episode he discusses everything from intestinal transplantation, to ex-vivo surgery, and tips on portal vein reconstruction.
50m Sep 17, 2018
50m
Annals of Surgery- Kaafarani et al.
This is the second episode of our journal club series with Annals of Surgery.  In this episode, Dr. Kaafarani will discuss his recent paper "Surgical Risk Is Not Linear: Derivation and Validation of a Novel, User-friendly, and Machine-learning-based Predictive OpTimal Trees in Emergency Surgery Risk (POTTER) Calculator," presented at the 2018 meeting of the American Surgical Association and rec...
25m Sep 09, 2018
25m