Vascular Surgery Interest Group

The Vascular Surgery Interest Group (VSIG) aims to:

Encourage a career in vascular surgery

• To raise awareness of the specialty among medical students and promote membership
  • Create a formal program of connecting interested students with faculty
  • Faculty/resident/student dinners/mixers
  • Help set up shadowing experiences (OR, clinics, wards)
• Invite attendings from both private practice and academia to speak on a variety of relevant topics

Take part in outreach within the community

• Help run a health table at a local health fair, high school, or other suitable venue on relevant topics

Encourage research within vascular surgery

• Journal clubs
• Solicit research opportunities from faculty and provide information for interested students

Provide education to medical students

• Attend vascular surgery conference
• Rounds with the Chief of Vascular Surgery/Vascular surgery fellows
• Shadow clinical experiences
• Attend vascular operations, suturing skills, scrubbing, vascular anastomoses workshops
• Visit simulation labs, anatomy sessions, non-invasive vascular labs
• Study groups
• Vascular surgery rotation tip sheet

Links

Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS): https://vascular.org/

Contact Us

• [email protected]
• Listserv Form

2025-2026 Board

President: Emily Brettingen - [email protected] 

Vice President: Christian Kontaxis - [email protected] 

Clinical Exposure Coordinator: John Maldonado - [email protected] 

Faculty Advisor

Dr. Michael Soult - [email protected]