Beyond the White Coat: Financial and Career Growth for Physicians (formerly Early Career Day) is a dynamic half-day symposium designed to empower physicians with the tools and knowledge essential for thriving at every stage of their career. Whether you're negotiating your first or even your second contract, advocating for protected time, or optimizing your clinic workflow, this program delivers practical insights that go far beyond clinical training. Join us to sharpen your clinical acumen, strengthen your professional voice, and boost your career trajectory because growth doesn't stop at the white coat.
Learning Objectives:
Summarize key findings from the top 6 articles of 2025 to enhance clinical practice.
Identify practical strategies to advocate for your professional worth and impact.
Explore options to improve clinical efficiency and office effectiveness.
Analyze and manage real-world complex interdisciplinary complex cases.
What careers are available upon graduating from an Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery fellowship? What factors should one take into consideration when negotiating a contract? What does research look like during Fellowship and what are some of the tips for improving your writing skills for publication? Join us for informative lectures and dynamic panel discussions at this AUGS annual event! Registration includes lunch and a fun-filled evening reception open only to fellows and residents.
Physicians and pelvic physiotherapists often express having knowledge gaps in clitoral anatomy, surgery and therapy. This hands-on workshop will specifically target this need and participants will leave feeling confident that they understand the superficial and deep anatomy, and its relation to other pelvic structures and common urogynecology procedures. Participants will also learn new skills in assessment, diagnosis and treatment of certain clitoral pathologies, including clitoral phimosis and how to treat this with either physiotherapy or an in-office or surgical procedure. Videos created by the workshop faculty will be used to highlight some of these treatments and participants can practice on a pelvic model. This will allow the participant to not only leave the session equipped to perform new techniques (physiotherapy) and procedures (lysis of adhesions, dorsal clitoral nerve block), but have the content and curricular background to teach this content at their home institution.
The learning objectives for this workshop are:
1. Understand why the clitoris has historically been omitted from medical education.
2. Build an anatomically correct model of the clitoral complex including the nervous and vascular systems.
3. Offer physiotherapy scar mobilization and/or 'clitoral lysis of adhesions' procedures in their clinical practice
4. Feel empowered to create change to their home institution's anatomy curriculum with novel curricular content garnered from this workshop.
The workshop will be divided in 2 sections: 1-hour lecture and panel discussion and a 2-hour dry lab session. The learning objectives for this workshop are:
1. Develop a deeper understanding of VNOTES applications in urogynecological procedures.
2. Compare and contrast vaginal vs. VNOTES approaches for uterosacral suspension.
3. Know standardized suture placement techniques to improve surgical outcomes.
4. Understand anatomical landmarks and their relationship based on histological and radiological reconstructions of pelvic organs.
5. Gain hands-on experience in uterosacral hysteropexy and vaginal vault suturing techniques.
