Hot Topics from the Annals of Surgery Ep. 2: Academic Surgery

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Science, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Education

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🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

In the second episode of this new collaboration between BTK and Annals of surgery, we discuss another hot topic: academic surgery. Specifically, we discuss dedicated research time for residents and how surgical leaders think about building the academic surgery enterprise. This discussion was inspired by a couple of recent papers in Annals of Surgery that stirred up a lot of conversation on social media which can be found below.

Host: Cody Mullens, MD MPH — general surgery resident at University of Michigan current BTK Surgery Education Fellow (@Cody_Mullens)

Guest: Justin Dimick, MD MPH — Fredrick A Coller Distinguished Professor and Chair of Surgery at the University of you Michigan and Editor in Chief at Annals of Surgery (@jdimick1)

Papers:
Career Trajectory After General Surgery Residency Do Academic Program Graduates Pursue Academic Surgery?
https://journals.lww.com/annalsofsurgery/abstract/2025/05000/career_trajectory_after_general_surgery_residency_.10.aspx

Training the Surgeon-scientist: Time (and Money) Well Spent?
https://journals.lww.com/annalsofsurgery/citation/9900/training_the_surgeon_scientist__time__and_money_.1318.aspx

Introducing a New Annals of Surgery Section Professional Development for the Contemporary Surgeon
https://journals.lww.com/annalsofsurgery/fulltext/2025/08000/introducing_a_new_annals_of_surgery_section_.8.aspx

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0:00.0	Behind the Night, The Surgery Podcast, relevant and engaging content designed to help you
0:11.6	dominate the day. Thank you all for your continue listening of Behind the Knife.
0:25.9	While many long-term listeners of BTK have used our podcast and resources while in medical school,
0:31.1	we now provide resources tailored to medical student general surgery curriculum.
0:35.5	Over the past 10 years of BTK and in our day jobs, we have
0:38.7	dialed in the specifics of what medical students need to dominate their surgery rotation. It
0:43.4	contains about everything you need to include review text, video, audio segments, pictures,
0:48.8	reviewing over about 17 disciplines that you encounter during your time on service. Enjoy the
0:53.9	series and dominate the day.
0:56.3	Hey, BTK listeners. This is Cody Mullins, one of the current surgery education fellows.
1:01.2	In today's episode of Behind the Knife, I'm excited to share a discussion with you guys with
1:06.1	another sit down with Dr. Justin Dimmick, who's the editor-in-chief at Annals of Surgery. And in today's
1:13.5	conversation, we will be specifically discussing the state of academic surgery, academic
1:18.6	surgical research for both the resident trainee as well as junior faculty. We hope you enjoy this
1:25.9	episode, and we will catch you with the next one.
1:29.3	Dr. Dimmick, thanks for joining us again today on Behind the Knife.
1:32.0	Happy to be here.
1:32.8	So today our conversation will be about the current state of academic surgery.
1:36.7	There's growing data across our field and journals about academic surgery as an institution,
1:41.5	its culture, and development and sustainment of the surgeon
1:45.2	scientists specifically. To jump into it, let's set some context for listeners. You're a leer of a
1:51.2	prominent, busy, well-resourced surgical department. Can you quickly give us a brief rundown of your
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