AAS Courses to Increase Women and Minorities in Academic Surgery

描述(由申请人提供)：根据NIH的统计数据，在过去的十年里，受资助的外科科学家的数量一直在稳步下降，接受外科培训的医科学生的数量也在稳步下降。此外，在学术医学领域，女性和少数族裔的人数仍然存在差距；在外科领域，这种差距更加严重。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，并支持他们确立自己的研究人员和教育工作者的地位。AAS组织了两门课程，职业发展课程和外科研究基础课程，旨在为实习外科医生和初级教师更好地为成功的学术外科职业生涯做准备。这些成熟的课程提供了一个极好的场所，鼓励更多的妇女和少数族裔从事学术外科事业，并提供了一个机会来发展长期的指导关系，目标是培养妇女和少数族裔在未来几年成为学术外科的领导者。这笔会议赠款的具体目的是：1)通过设立有针对性的旅行奖励，增加妇女和少数族裔参加外科手术职业发展课程和外科研究基础课程的人数；2)改善与外科手术妇女协会和黑人学术外科医生协会的合作，通过加强合作营销和降低注册费，鼓励她们的成员参加课程；3)通过与选定的与会者/演讲者和美国外科学会高级成员建立指导关系，提高妇女和少数族裔在学术外科职业生涯中成功的可能性。

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.