Stay Current In Pediatric Surgery

This is the next episode in our #APSA50 series, where we teamed up with the Behind the Knife Podcast to cover the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the American Pediatric Surgical Association. The coverage of the conference wouldn’t be complete without a little history lesson and guidance for the future. Drs Jim O’Neill, Jr. and Jo Shapiro join Rae Hanke, Alex Casar and Alex Gibbons to take a journey through the past and peak into the future. Throughout the discussion, we first review the journey of three pediatric surgery pioneers, Drs William Ladd, Herbert Coe, and Oswald Wyatt. Dr. O’Neill shares the efforts of H. William Clatworthy as he approached the American Board of Surgery to identify the reasoning for refusing Pediatric Surgery Board Certification. In brief this was due to the belief that we held no unique body of knowledge beyond general surgery, had no association with surgical roots, had no standard curriculum or standards for certification, and finally did not have a structure of governance. He goes