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Join Drs. Prerna Ladha, Hassan Mashbari and Lauren Dudas and learn about Global Surgery from Drs. Mike Mallah, Chris Dodgion, Katie Iverson and the EAST Global Surgery Ad Hoc Task Force.  What does Global Surgery  even mean? How can you get involved, who is out there practicing internationally or can you practice Global Surgery domestically?  
Supplemental Material: ♦https://www.mcw.edu/departments/surgery/education/global-surgical-programs♦https://medicine.musc.edu/departments/surgery/global-surgery-program♦https://www.panamtrauma.org/♦Incision (International Student Surgical Network) - https://incisionetwork.org/♦GSSA (Global Surgery Student Alliance) -  https://www.globalsurgerystudents.org/♦American College of Surgeons Resident and Associate Society Global Surgery Workgroup (https://www.facs.org/for-medical-professionals/membership-community/resident-and-associate-society/leadership/) form to self nominate♦AAGS (Association of Academic Global Surgery) - https://www.academicglobalsurgery.org/ - opportunities for faculty, resident and student involvement in committees.

The EAST Oriens Award is a resident and fellow essay competition celebrating the passions that drive us to choose a career in Trauma and Acute Care Surgery.  In this podcast, Dr. Hassan Mashbari talks with the 2023 Oriens Award Recipients, Dr. Julia R. Coleman (Fellow recipient) and Dr. Colin Whitmore (Resident recipient), as they share their  essays and discuss what has led them to a career in Trauma and Acute Care Surgery.Supplemental MaterialEAST Oriens Award information and past award recipients and essays.

At the 36th EAST Annual Scientific Assembly (January 17-21, 2023) Dr. Clay Cothren Burlew, MD, FACS gave an inspiring Oriens Keynote address- #WWCCBD. Dr. Cothren Burlew shared important experiences that shaped her and the lessons she learned along the way. It left the audience in awe and wanting more. In an interview by Dr. Charlie Harris and Dr. Prerna Ladha, Dr. Burlew talks more about her journey, shares pearls of wisdom, and what it is to leave a legacy.Click here for more information on the EAST Oriens Award and Keynote Addresses.

The Peer Review Committee at your hospital or institution is continually monitoring the performance of all its physicians as part of its quality and safety initiative.  This episode focuses on what to know about the peer review process if you happen to get the attention of the peer review committee: how to use the experience to improve yourself, and how to protect yourself and your career from sham peer review. 
Dr. Charlie Harris interviews Dr. Andrew Bernard, Chief of the Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine.  For more on the topic of sham peer review, please see the 2016 EAST town hall moderated by Drs. Bernard and Matt Martin here

What happens when you have a devastating outcome that leaves you with feels of self-doubt, guilt and sadness? When the patients have complications, the surgeon suffers too. Dr. Prerna Ladha and Dr. Hassan Mashbari interview Dr. Haytham Kaafarani, Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and the Chief Patient Safety Officer of the Joint Commission as he discusses the second victim phenomenon and his novel 5-step peer support program. 

In this episode from the EAST Past Presidents series, Dr. Charlie Harris talks to Dr. Elliott Haut, President of EAST in 2019.  Dr. Haut provides his take on how to be successful in EAST, EAST’s role in trauma practice management guidelines, and how to become involved in the editorial process.Supplemental MaterialsDr. Haut's Presidential Address - Link to PDF and VideoPresident's Message - EAST News Issue 02 2019