Main description:

Academic surgeons play an essential role in advancing the field and improving the care of patients with surgical disease. As the Association for Academic Surgery (AAS) Fall Courses (www.aasurg.org) and international courses continue to evolve to address the rapidly expanding scope and complexity of academic surgery, there is a greater need for an accompanying textbook to supplement the material presented in the courses.

Success in Academic Surgery: Basic Science is a unique and portable handbook that focuses on the basic and translational research. It includes new educational materials that are necessary to address not only the rapid evolution and rise of novel research methodologies in basic science and translational research, but also the changing environment for academic surgeons.

Success in Academic Surgery: Basic Science is a valuable text for medical students, surgical residents, junior faculty and others considering a career in surgical research.

Feature:

​Success in Academic Surgery:  Basic Science is a handy, portable text which offers practical guidance on developing a career within surgical education  

Written by expert authors from around the world who are members of the Association for Academic Surgery  

Success in Academic Surgery: Basic Science offers advice on how to review the literature, techniques in the laboratory, statistics, and ethics among other things

Back cover:

This comprehensive book teaches the theories and concepts behind leadership and explains the skills and traits needed to become a good leader. The authors discuss practical management skills, including conflict resolution techniques, how to manage difficult personalities and how to effectively manage up. The readers will learn to build and motivate a team, understand personality types and how to manage to their strengths.

Success in Academic Surgery: Leadership in surgery is a highly useful book to anyone in the surgical field, providing clear examples and useful tips for what to do in the role of a surgical leader from current leaders in surgery.

Contents:

​How to Set Up, Staff and Fund Your Basic Science or Translational Research Laboratory.- Choosing a Good Basic Science or Translational Research Mentor.- Effective Time Management Strategies for Conducting Laboratory Research.- How to Read the Literature, Develop a Hypothesis, and Design an Experiment for Basic Science and Translational Research.- Tips on Maintaining an Effective Lab Notebook for Bench Research.- How to Conduct Cell Culture.- Modern Techniques for Protein Assessment.- Modern Techniques for DNA and RNA Assessments.- Utilizing Flow Cytometry Effectively.- Considerations for Immunohistochemistry.- Stem Cells: Are They Pertinent to My Research?.- Use of Genetically Engineered Mice for Research.- Getting Your IACUC Proposal Approved.- How to Protect Your Intellectual Property: Invention Disclosures and Patents.- Statistics for Bench Research.- Ethics in Laboratory Research.