AAS Courses to Increase Women and Minorities in Academic Surgery

描述（由申请人提供）：根据美国国立卫生研究院的统计，在过去的十年中，受资助的外科科学家的数量一直在稳步下降，而接受外科培训的医科学生的数量也在稳步下降。此外，妇女和少数民族在学术医学领域的人数仍然存在差距；这种差异在外科领域更为严重。学术外科协会（AAS）致力于激励年轻的外科医生和外科科学家追求学术外科的职业生涯，并支持他们成为研究者和教育者。AAS组织了两门课程，职业发展课程和外科研究基础课程，旨在更好地为外科培训医生和初级教师做好成功的学术生涯准备。这些完善的课程提供了一个很好的场所，鼓励更多的女性和少数民族追求学术外科事业，并有机会发展长期的指导关系，目标是在未来几年培养女性和少数民族成为学术外科的领导者。本次会议赠款的具体目的是：1)通过设立有针对性的旅行奖励，增加女性和少数族裔参加学术外科职业发展协会课程和外科研究基础课程的人数；2)改善与外科女性协会和黑人学术外科医生协会的合作，通过加大合作营销力度和降低注册费用，鼓励其会员参加课程；3)通过与选定的与会者/演讲者和AAS的高级成员建立师徒关系，提高女性和少数族裔在学术外科事业上成功的可能性。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): According to NIH statistics, the number of funded surgical scientists has been steadily decreasing over the last decade as has the number of medical students pursuing surgical training. In addition, there remains disparity in the number of women and minorities in academic medicine; this disparity is even more severe in surgical fields. The Association for Academic Surgery (AAS) strives to stimulate young surgeons and surgical scientists to pursue careers in academic surgery and support them in establishing themselves as investigators and educators. AAS organizes two courses, the Career Development Course and Fundamentals of Surgical Research Course which aim to better prepare surgeons-in-training as well as junior faculty for successful academic surgery careers. These well established courses offer an excellent venue to encourage more women and minorities to pursue academic surgery careers as well as an opportunity to develop longstanding mentored relationships with the goal of grooming women and minorities to become academic surgery leaders in the years to come. The specific aims of this conference grant are to: 1) Increase the attendance of women and minorities at the Association for Academic Surgery Career Development Course and Fundamental of Surgical Research Course through the creation of targeted travel awards, 2) Improve collaboration with the Association of Women in Surgery and the Association of Black Academic Surgeons and encourage course attendance by their membership through increased collaborative marketing efforts and reduced registration fees, and 3) Improve likelihood of success for women and minorities in academic surgery careers by establishing mentored relationships with select attendees/speakers and senior members of AAS.