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Educational Topics on Vascular Surgery for Medical Students and Residents Podcasts

Educational Topics on Vascular Surgery for Medical Students and Residents Podcasts 

The Society for Vascular Surgery is pleased to introduce the Educational Topics on Vascular Surgery for Medical Students and Residents Podcasts. The Medical Student and Resident Podcasts address a broad scope of vascular surgery topics, as well as career opportunities. These podcasts are presented monthly as part of the SVS Resident and Student Recruitment Program.

If you have iTunes installed on your computer you can automatically subscribe to the Residents and Students Podcast now or you can access the podcasts through the links below.

The podcasts on this page are available in either audio mp3 files or video formats. The video podcasts are available in two formats - Windows Media  (WMV) and Quicktime video (MOV). 

To play the podcasts from this Web site, simply click on the links below (Audio, WMV or MOV). The MOV files are much larger and take longer to download; you may want to download the MOV files directly to your computer prior to playing. 

To download the files to your computer:

1. Right-click over the link and select "Save Target As"
2. Choose the file location on your computer to store the file
3. Double-click the file to view through your computer, or drag into your portable player's software (such as iTunes)

Vascular Surgery Specialty |  Career Development | Vascular Health and Research

Vascular Surgery Specialty   

WMV | MOV
History of Vascular Surgery
A brief video describing the history of vascular surgery.

Non-invasive Vascular Diagnosis
WMV | MOV
One of the major assets of the vascular specialist is the ability to diagnose vascular disease using non-invasive techniques, including ultrasound, blood pressures and plethesmography. These techniques utilize sound waves or blood pressure cuffs to evaluate arteries and veins. The studies are termed non-invasive because these technologies do not require incisions, catheters or needles. 

Open Vascular Surgery: A Mainstay of Vascular Care
Audio
In a follow-up to the Past, Present and Future of Endovascular Aneurysm Repair podcast, at the 2007 Vascular Annual Meeting, Glen Roseborough, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital spoke to residents and students on how open vascular surgery is still a large focus of vascular care.

The Past, Present and Future of Endovascular Aneurysm Repair
Audio
At the 2007 Vascular Annual Meeting, Manish Mehta, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Vascular Group, PLLC, spoke to residents and students on the history of endovascular abdominal aneurysm repair in vascular surgery and emerging technologies.

Profile of a Famous Vascular Surgeon: Juan C. Parodi
WMV | MOV
In 1975, a 33 year-old resident at the Cleveland Clinic began a friendship with an 82 year old patient. The patient was recovering from an open abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) procedure, and his recovery was protracted. His suffering inspired the young resident to dream about a less-invasive way to repair these aneurysms. Fifteen years later, that same physician, Juan C. Parodi, accomplished what he had envisioned years earlier; he repaired an abdominal aortic aneurysm using an intraluminal graft that was placed through a less invasive transfemoral approach.

Training Paradigms and Workforce Needs in Vascular Surgery
Audio
At the 2008 Vascular Annual Meeting, Jack L. Cronenwett, MD, a vascular surgeon at Dartmouth Medical School, spoke to residents and students about the evolution of the current vascular surgery training paradigms and the increasing demand for more vascular surgeons to treat an aging population with vascular problems.

Vascular Health for Baby Boomers
Audio
Vascular surgeon Dr. Julie Freischlag recently spoke to the general public about vascular health and the treatments performed by vascular surgeons in an interview with Sky Radio Promotions for audio broadcast on American Airlines and Northwest Airlines.

 

Career Development   

Why Vascular Surgery?
WMV | MOV
Vascular diseases are among the most prevalent medical conditions. Listen to vascular surgeons discuss one of the most exciting fields in medicine today. Emphasis on performing open surgical, endovascular and minimally invasive procedures to treat acute and chronic arterial and venous diseases.

Choosing the Right Specialty
Audio
At the 2007 Vascular Annual Meeting, Julie A. Freischlag, MD, the Chair of the Department of Surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, spoke to residents and students on how to choose the right specialty, making the most of your medical career, and taking advantage of current opportunities in vascular surgery.

Diverse and Exciting Vascular Opportunities
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There is a critical need for vascular surgeons as the patient base for vascular surgery will continue to grow as baby boomers age. It is expected that the population of baby boomers will rise 20 percent in five years and 50 percent in 10 years. Recently introduced, integrated vascular surgery training programs, which provide a primary certificate in vascular surgery only, will result in a shortened vascular surgery training period for junior residents or medical students who choose vascular surgery early on.

Infinite Research Opportunities
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Vascular surgery offers huge opportunities in a diverse field of areas for vascular research. New devices and techniques, including imaging, are about to experience an explosion of development, and new vascular surgeons will be able to help determine where scarce health care dollars can do the most good for the greatest number of patients. Vascular surgery research truly represents the real cutting edge of medicine today.

Job Options in Vascular Surgery
Audio
At the 2008 Vascular Annual Meeting Ruth Bush, MD, an Associate Professor of Surgery at the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, spoke to residents and students on the various types of job opportunities available to vascular surgeons, such as in private practice and academic settings.

Options for Careers in Vascular Surgery
WMV | MOV
After training in vascular surgery, vascular surgeons can take care of a myriad of patient’s problems with a wide array of treatment plans. The best thing about practicing as a vascular surgeon is that the patients come back to see the same physician over a long period of time, a lifetime actually, with the need for the surgeon to monitor their lifestyle as well as the results of any interventions they perform.

Structuring Your Practice: How to Optimize Time and Revenue
WMV | MOV
Dr. Clem Darling discusses an important topic for surgeons just starting their practice - how to structure vascular surgery practices to optimize time and revenue.

Your Family, Patients and Career
WMV | MOV
A career in vascular surgery can offer a balanced and flexible lifestyle. With vascular surgery, you can experience a full range of practice options and opportunities such as an academic career at a university or in a private practice with options to pursue interests in research or education.

 

 

Vascular Health and Research   

Carotid-Specific Lipid Lowering: What Does the Data Show?
Audio
At the 2007 Vascular Annual Meeting, Glenn LaMuraglia, MD, associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School, reviewed studies on carotid-specific lipid lowering medical therapies.

The Changing Treatment of Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms
WMV | MOV
In 2008 the FDA approved two new thoracic endografts bringing up to three the number of devices approved for the treatment of descending thoracic aneurysms. Aneurysms of the thoracic aorta account for nearly 2,500 deaths per year mostly from rupture. They can result from infections, dissection, traumatic injuries or even inherited genetic disorders.

Contraindications for Carotid Stenting
WMV | MOV
The role of carotid stenting in the treatment of carotid artery disease remains murky. A recent SVS Clinical Practice guideline published in the Journal of Vascular Surgery® in August 2008 recommends against carotid stenting in all but the most limited situations: that is, the symptomatic patient with high grade stenosis and predicted high perioperative risk based primarily on surgical or anatomic complexity.

Educating America About Venous Disease
Audio
At the 2007 Vascular Annual Meeting, Robert B. McLafferty, MD, a professor at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, discussed the data from the expanded American Venous Forum screening program, which screened and educated approximately 4,000 people about venous disease. Complete results of the screening program were recently published in the August 2008 issue of the Journal of Vascular Surgery.

Endovascular Repair Results in Decrease of Total Aneurysm Deaths
WMV | MOV
At the 2008 Vascular Annual Meeting, Kristina Giles, MD, a general surgery resident at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston presented research from a nationwide database of hospital discharges from 1988-2005, that reported in the U.S. population deaths from all abdominal aortic aneurysms, as well as the total ruptured AAAs is declining, while the number of elective repairs is increasing. These improved results coincide with the introduction of endovascular aneurysm repair, approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1999.   

Endovascular Techniques for Ruptured Aortic Aneurysms
WMV | MOV
Elective aortic aneurysm repair has evolved over the past decade. Today, the majority of patients are evaluated for endovascular treatment and only those who do not meet the anatomic criteria are offered open surgical reconstruction. More recently, we have extended this technology to patients who present with ruptured abdominal and/or thoracic aortic aneurysms. 

Endovascular Therapy and the Diabetic Foot
Audio
At the 2007 Vascular Annual Meeting, Joseph L., Mills, MD, Chief of the Section of Vascular Surgery at the Arizona Health Sciences Center, discussed when endovascular therapy was sufficient for the treatment of the neuroishemic diabetic foot.

Endovascular Treatment of Thoracoabdominal Aortic Aneurysms
Audio
At the 2007 Vascular Annual Meeting, Timothy A.M. Chuter, MD, Professor of Surgery in Residence at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) discussed a UCSF study regarding how a modular stent-graft that incorporates multiple caudally-directed branches to the visceral arteries to repair thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm can offer a safer surgical alternative to open repair.

Infrainguinal Bypass Surgery Has Significant Perioperative Morbidity
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At the 2008 Vascular Annual Meeting, Glenn LaMuraglia, MD, associate professor of surgery, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General, discussed data from a new database and early outcomes study regarding the number of clinical and anatomic factors.

Management of Chronic Mesenteric Ischemia
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Chronic mesenteric ischemia is a disease caused by blockages in the mesenteric arteries, that carry blood to the small and large intestines. Ischemia means decreased circulation and it usually develops due to atherosclerosis or hardening of the arteries. Chronic mesenteric ischemia is just one form of PAD that can also present with leg pain due to decreased circulation in the legs, with chest pain due to decreased circulation in the heart, or with stroke due to blockages  in the arteries of the brain.

Minimally Invasive Vascular Procedures and Vascular Surgery
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The early years of vascular surgery were dominated by open aortic and carotid surgery which was challenging and often complicated, with long hospital stays the norm. While the modern vascular surgeon maintains this expertise, only a minority of the procedures today require an incision, and many of the procedures can be done as an out-patient. In vascular surgery today, minimally invasive individualized treatment is the focus.

Options for Management of Carotid Restenosis
WMV | MOV
The basis for the treatment of extracranial cerebrovascular occlusive disease is prevention of stroke. Surgical or endovascular intervention for these lesions is warranted if it is determined that they provide a safe and more effective treatment than best medical therapy alone.

Penetrating Ulcers of the Aorta
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Penetrating ulcers represent one of several atherosclerotic, degenerative diseases of the aorta. It is relatively more common in the thoracic aorta as compared to the abdominal aorta, but with respect to other degenerative pathologies such as aneurysms, penetrating ulcers occur in less than 15 percent of cases. 

 

Updated August 2009