Another Record-Breaking Year for JMIG!

Dear Membership of the AAGL,

The AAGL wishes to express our most sincere congratulations to Dr. Tommaso Falcone, Editor-in-Chief of JMIG, the JMIG Editorial Board and our Reviewers for an outstanding year in publication. The JMIG Impact Factor has just been released and has once again validated that JMIG is the most impactful publication on minimally invasive gynecologic surgery worldwide. This year’s record-breaking impact factor is 4.314, up from 4.137 in 2021! An impact factor reflects the quality of the paper as reflected by the number of times it has been cited.

Thank you to each author and peer reviewer whose invaluable contributions are evident in this score.

We are extremely proud of this accomplishment!

Sincerely,

Mauricio S. Abrao, MD, PhD, AAGL President

From the Desk of the AAGL President, Dr. Mauricio S. Abrão

AAGL Statement Condemning Supreme Court Overturning Roe v. Wade

The AAGL believes in the innate right for all women to receive unrestricted access to essential medical care and as such, we condemn the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overrule Roe v. Wade. This politically decided ruling ignores the expertise of clinical medical practitioners, endangers the health of women, and criminalizes critical medical practice.

The health of a woman’s body includes her right to comprehensive reproductive care, her right to abortion care, and her right to choose. As a result of this ruling, in likely half of our country, women will be denied lifesaving medical care, particularly women who live below the poverty line who cannot travel to states that can provide appropriate treatment.The Supreme Court’s decision will have intense, unconsidered ramifications that injure women and the medical profession.

AAGL strongly opposes this decision and, along with the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), the Collaborative for Reproductive Equity (CORE), the American Urogynecologic Society (AUGS) and others, we commit to policy action and advocacy to make certain that medical treatment is determined by the patient in need of treatment and the medical professionals trained, experienced and qualified to make such decisions, rather than politicians.

Join Us in the Rockies!

Popular postgraduate course line-up released for AAGL22, December 1-4 in Aurora, Colorado! Click the image above to view the listings and bookmark the official Congress site (congress.aagl.org) to stay in the know!  Registration and housing are opening soon!

SurgeryU Best Picture Award Competition

We’re excited to announce SurgeryU’s first ever video competition! The competition is open to all trainees – medical students, residents, fellows of any specialty are eligible and must be the presenting author. Videos are to be approximately 30-45 minutes in length with as much surgery footage as possible.

Submissions are being accepted now and will close August 1, 2022. Grading of submitted videos will be from August 1-November 1, 2022. The winner for the SurgeryU Best Picture Award Competition will be announced at the 51st AAGL Global Congress in Aurora, Colorado, December 1-4, 2022.

For more information on submitting and scoring criteria click here.

Click here for a personal video invitation from Suketu Mansuria, M.D., Editor-in-Chief of SurgeryU as he explains it all for you.