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ACS Surgeons as Leaders: From Operating Room to Boardroom
This posttest activity is for participants of the in-person course, ACS Surgeons as Leaders: From Operating Room to Boardroom, offered in Durham, North Carolina, on December 11-14, 2022. Course participants seeking credit that will meet self-assessment requirements must complete the posttest and achieve a score of 75% correct, with unlimited attempts. Other course participants interested in assessing their knowledge are welcome to complete the posttest, as well. To access the posttest, click “Take course.”
Course Description
Today’s medical environment, both in the academic and private practice worlds, is challenging, complex, and unpredictable. The need for leadership has never been greater, and the demands on leaders are ever escalating. The purpose of the ACS Surgeons as Leaders course is to provide surgeons with an understanding of leadership at all levels of an organization and provide them with the skills that are essential to effective leadership. Difficult leadership issues, such as navigating the operational and human aspects of change, cultivating commitment to a shared vision and goals, building teams, and developing strategies for leading up, down, and across the institutional environment, were addressed.
Target Audience
The course is designed for surgeons who currently serve in leadership positions, or aspire to such positions, and who seek to enhance their leadership skills across a wide variety of settings, from operating room to boardroom. Surgeons in community practice and academic practice who want to advance their skills in leading people, groups, and organizations will find the course beneficial. The emphasis will be on leadership; management of such entities and the skills generally associated with management will not be addressed in the course.
Contact
- For course-related questions, contact Melanie Thorsen, MBAHC, CRA, CCMEP, Senior Manager, Continuing Education Programs and Lifelong Learning, at mthorsen@facs.org.
- For technical questions, please contact us at Learning@facs.org.
The three-day, in-person course is structured to maximize learning and interaction with the faculty while providing a variety of educational experiences. Content areas include:
- Leadership Challenges
- Leading and Sustaining Change
- Building and Maintaining Team Effectiveness
- Leading Oneself
- Art and Principles of Leadership
Disclosure Information
In accordance with the ACCME Accreditation Criteria, the American College of Surgeons must ensure that anyone in a position to control the content of the educational activity (planners and speakers/authors/discussants/moderators) has disclosed all financial relationships with any commercial interest (termed by the ACCME as “ineligible companies”, defined below) held in the last 24 months (see below for definitions). Please note that first authors were required to collect and submit disclosure information on behalf all other authors/contributors, if applicable.
Ineligible company
The ACCME defines an “ineligible company” as any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services used on or consumed by patients. Providers of clinical services directly to patients are NOT included in this definition.
Financial Relationships
Relationships in which the individual benefits by receiving a salary, royalty, intellectual property rights, consulting fee, honoraria, ownership interest (e.g., stocks, stock options or other ownership interest, excluding diversified mutual funds), or other financial benefit. Financial benefits are usually associated with roles such as employment, management position, independent contractor (including contracted research), consulting, speaking and teaching, membership on advisory committees or review panels, board membership, and other activities from which remuneration is received, or expected. ACCME considers relationships of the person involved in the CME activity to include financial relationships of a spouse or partner.
Conflict of Interest
Circumstances create a conflict of interest when an individual has an opportunity to affect CME content about products or services of an ineligible company with which he/she has a financial relationship.
The ACCME also requires that ACS manage any reported conflict and eliminate the potential for bias during the educational activity. Any conflicts noted below have been managed to our satisfaction. The disclosure information is intended to identify any commercial relationships and allow learners to form their own judgments. However, if you perceive a bias during the educational activity, please report it on the evaluation.
Faculty Disclosures
Julie A. Freischlag - Nothing to disclose
David B. Hoyt - Nothing to disclose
Matthew M. Hutter - Vicarious Surgical: Consulting, Stock options; GI Windows: Consulting, Stock options; Hillrom: Advisory Board, Fee; Novo Nordisk: Advisory Board, Fee; Intuitive: Reimbursed travel
Lenworth Jacobs - Nothing to disclose
Larry R. Kaiser - Nothing to disclose
Melinda R. Kibbe - Nothing to disclose
Fabrizio Michelassi - Tsumura, Inc: Advisory Board, Honoraria; Verily, Inc: Advisory Board, Honoraria
Carlos A. Pellegrini - Nothing to disclose
Ajit K. Sachdeva - Nothing to disclose
Nathaniel J. Soper - Mesh Suture, Inc.: Scientific Advisory Board, Stock options; FlexDex, Inc.: Scientific Advisory Board, Stock options
Beth H. Sutton - Nothing to disclose
Gary L. Timmerman - Nothing to disclose
Andrew L. Warshaw - Nothing to disclose
Continuing Medical Education Credit Information
Accreditation
The American College of Surgeons is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
The American College of Surgeons designates this live activity for a maximum of 22.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Of the AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ listed above, a maximum of 22.75 credits meet the requirements for Self-Assessment.
This posttest activity is for participants of the in-person course, ACS Surgeons as Leaders: From Operating Room to Boardroom, offered in Durham, North Carolina, on December 11-14, 2022. Course participants seeking credit that will meet self-assessment requirements must complete the posttest and achieve a score of 75% correct, with unlimited attempts. Other course participants interested in assessing their knowledge are welcome to complete the posttest, as well. To access the posttest, click “Take course.”
Available Credit
- 22.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 22.75 Self Assessment Credit