The Surgery Specialty Forum provides a forum for medical students, premedical students and practicing physicains with the goal of:

• Promoting learning and critical thinking.
  • Providing a resource to improve interaction and learning during our time with mentors.
  • Helping the list members learn how to create a plan to achieve their goal of becoming a surgeon.
  • Stimulating open discussions.
• Inspiring passion and leadership.
  • Surgeons lead a team, having skills to achieve this can allow a surgeon to be effective technically and have the support of the staff.
• Providing a resource for learning.
  • Together our knowledge pool is greater than any one contributor. The list provides an opportunity to ask questions, learn from the experience of others, and leverage each other's knowledge. Please feel free post clinical cases (even hypothetical) that you would like the list to consult on, remembering NOT to include any information that may be give any clue to a real patient. This list is not secure or limited, so post accordingly. All posts to the list must be in accordance with the listserve guidlines.

RESOURCES

• 2006 Neurosurgery Interviews
• Orthopaedic Surgery Information and Interviews
• Pediatric Surgery Information and Interviews
• Cardiovascular Surgery Interviews
• Anesthesiology Information
• Transplant Surgery Interviews
• Trauma Surgery Interviews
• Urology Surgery Interviews
• Vascular Surgery Interviews
• Women in Surgery

American College of Surgeons' Online Guide for Choosing a Residency

So You Want to Be a Surgeon - an ACS publication to help students understand what's involved in becoming a surgeon and to find a residency

Cardiothoracic Surgery General Links
Cardiothoracic Surgery Net - excellent general reference for cardiothoracic surgery. Includes a full text cardiac surgery book, videos of various procedures, clinical situation simulators and many other multimedia resources.
Heart Surgery Forum - excellent cardiac surgery page. Includes a multimedia journal, videos of procedures, various multimedia lectures and many other resources.
Cardiothoracic Surgery at NYU - includes many interesting articles, full-length surgical procedure videos and case studies
Mednets Cardiovascular Surgery - many cardiac and vascular surgery links
Heart Linx - excellent general cardiology reference

Cardiothoracic Surgery Organizations
American College of Cardiology
Society of Thoracic Surgeons
American Heart Association
American Association of Thoracic Surgeons
American Board of Thoracic Surgery
European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery
Thoracic Surgery Foundation for Research and Education

Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery
PediHeart - excellent pediatric cardiology link. Covers, in great detail, various pathologies and their surgical treatments.
Kids Heart Surgery - excellent site prepared by a pediatric cardiac surgeon at Stanford focusing on minimally invasive surgery.