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2027 Vascular Fellows Program

The objective of the 2027 VESS Vascular Fellows Program is to educate graduating fellows on starting a career as a vascular surgeon. Recent topics have included negotiating contracts, billing and coding, social media and branding, how to be successful in an academic vs. private practice, and recognizing/coping with burnout.

VESS is pleased to offer each qualified fellow a $1,000 reimbursement stipend to help offset travel and accommodations. We invite you to consider sending a fellow or trainee to this outstanding program and to attend the 2027 Annual Meeting of the VESS. The Vascular Fellows Program (Thursday, January 21st) is limited to funding 25 individuals. (Additional fellows are welcome to attend at their own expense.)

Participating fellows will be asked to submit an interesting or challenging case for review and possible inclusion in the Case Presentation session.

At this time, we are no longer accepting applications for the travel stipends to any of the training courses. If you are planning to come to the VESS annual meeting, you are welcome to attend the programing on Thursday morning.

If you have any questions, contact us at [email protected].

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2027 VESS Next Generation Student Mentor Program

VESS strives to facilitate the interchange of new knowledge while providing mentorship, leadership development, and advocacy on behalf of its membership. These efforts are particularly relevant to not only the young vascular surgeon, but also the students and trainees who follow aspiring for a career in vascular surgery.

This program is aimed at achieving the following programmatic goals:

  1. To introduce medical students from around the country to the dynamic specialty of vascular surgery.
  2. To embrace the students and make them feel part of the fellowship atmosphere of the VESS annual meeting.
  3. To provide opportunity for meaningful interaction between the students and vascular surgery residents, fellows, and young faculty in attendance.
  4. To share the latest research directing the future of our specialty.
  5. To facilitate new opportunities for mentorship between the students and VESS members and leadership.

The program will feature a combination of didactic lectures and small group sessions to achieve these goals. There will be opportunity for open discussion of relevant questions and time for interaction between student and vascular trainees. In addition, ample opportunity will exist for spontaneous encounters between the students and VESS members throughout the weekend that are guaranteed to provide less formal, yet more impactful interaction. The VESS will provide each student in attendance a $1,500 scholarship to defray the cost of travel to the meeting.

The Next Generation Student Mentor Program is truly an investment in the future of our specialty by empowering the next generation of medical students to experience the clinical challenges, technological innovation, translational research, and fellowship that defines our important specialty. It requires a collaborative effort between medical schools, individual vascular surgeons, vascular societies like VESS, vascular surgical leadership, and industry partners alike to successfully recruit this country’s “best and brightest” to our specialty.

At this time, we are no longer accepting applications for the travel stipends to any of the training courses. If you are planning to come to the VESS annual meeting, you are welcome to attend the programing on Thursday morning.

If you have any questions, contact us at [email protected].

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2027 General Surgery Resident Vascular Interest Program

The 2027 General Surgery Resident Vascular Interest Program is aimed to sponsor and provide network opportunities to all general surgery resident applicants that have an interest in pursuing a Vascular Surgery Fellowship.

The program will include topics of interest regarding fellowship application process, types of programs, academic and private practice, mentoring opportunities, research advancement and the unique VESS networking environment that will allow attendees to interact with other vascular fellows and residents, vascular surgery faculty around the country as well as immersion to broad vascular pathology and industry technology.

The program is scheduled on Thursday, January 21, 2027, just prior to the Annual Winter Meeting. Funding is limited to 25 general surgery residents and preference will be given to those in their 3rd and 4th year. The VESS will provide a $1,000 travel stipend to those accepted for the program.  (Additional residents are welcome to attend at their own expense.)

At this time, we are no longer accepting applications for the travel stipends to any of the training courses. If you are planning to come to the VESS annual meeting, you are welcome to attend the programing on Thursday morning.

If you have any questions, contact us at [email protected].

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2027 Early Career Faculty Program

The objective of the 2027 Early Career Faculty Program is to provide those in their first 1 to 5 years in practice an interactive program to discuss the challenges and opportunities specific to early years in practice. This program will include topics such as establishing a career, pursuing your career interests, dealing with conflicts with your partners and understanding your practice and personal finances. Participants will also have the opportunity to present a challenging case in an interactive forum with feedback from fellow participants as well as moderators. Each faculty member accepted into the program will receive a $1,000 travel stipend to help with the cost of attending the meeting.  Funding is limited to 25 individuals (Additional faculty are welcome to attend at their own expense.)

At this time, we are no longer accepting applications for the travel stipends to any of the training courses. If you are planning to come to the VESS annual meeting, you are welcome to attend the programing on Thursday morning.

If you have any questions, contact us at [email protected].

Apply Now