Pvss.org
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Peripheral Vascular Surgery Society
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Abstract
The Peripheral Vascular Surgery Society was founded in 1976 as a national forum for young fellowship-trained peripheral vascular surgeons. From a modest beginning as The Peripheral Vascular Surgery Club, it has grown from an original 19 to over 150 members. It remains, however, the only national vascular organization that requires specific fellowship training in peripheral vascular surgery as a prerequisite for membership. To ensure the Society's commitment to the young vascular surgeon, active members must become senior members after 10 years. Both active and senior members are urged to attend and participate in the annual meeting held the day preceding the joint SVS/ISCVS meeting. A Foreign Fellowship Category has been established and members are encouraged to sponsor for membership deserving young foreign peripheral vascular surgeons.
Surgical specialties and the organizations that represent them arise to fill a need. In the early 1970's, a need arose for surgeons specifically trained in the diagnosis, non-operative and operative management of peripheral vascular disorders. As these trainees emerged from fellowship programs throughout the country, the additional need arose to provide a national forum through which these young fellowship-trained peripheral vascular surgeons could informally meet, exchange ideas, and mutually promote the new specialty of peripheral vascular surgery.
The Seed Is Sown
While Visiting Professor of Surgery at New York University in the winter of 1975, Dr. Ben Eiseman recognized that a second generation of young vascular surgeons was being trained and that they would soon be responsible for the majority of peripheral vascular surgical care throughout the United States. He suggested the founding of an organization of young fellowship-graduates in peripheral vascular surgery and proposed that the organizational structure be similar to that of the Surgical Biology Club. With this concept in mind, one of us (RGS) sent a letter in February of 1975 to the directors of all programs providing fellowships in peripheral vascular surgery, as published in the December issue of Surgery. This letter explained the objectives of the proposed organization and asked the program directors for their comments. The response was positive, and in May of 1976, a second letter was sent directly to current and recent fellows, inviting them to be founding members of a club consisting solely of those who had spent a year in special training in peripheral vascular surgery.
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