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ACS Surgeons as Educators - Fall 2025
This six-day intensive course, offered by the ACS Division of Education, is designed to provide surgeons with the knowledge and skills to enhance their abilities as teachers and administrators of surgical education programs.
The course emphasizes the needs of adult learners and the techniques necessary to develop an effective learning environment for medical students, surgical residents, and colleagues. The class size is limited, and participants are carefully selected to foster highly interactive sessions.
Target Audience
The course is intended for full-time faculty members who are interested in acquiring or honing skills in curriculum development, teaching, performance and program evaluation, and program administration as well as faculty who have direct teaching responsibilities for medical students or residents.
Participants are expected to free themselves from all work obligations during the course. The intensive nature of the program requires that evenings be kept free for preparation and other course activities; full participation by all attendees throughout the program is expected.
The course is limited to 40 participants. Letters of notification regarding course acceptance have been emailed. All participants are expected to attend the entire course and remain until its conclusion.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:
- Select optimal teaching methods and technologies and enhance the application of these methods to maximize learning.
- Plan and document an instructional unit (for example, a clerkship or residency rotation) using an organized instructional design framework.
- Apply leadership and management skills in the administration of educational programs, including motivating faculty, implementing change, managing conflict, and guiding career development.
- Develop a sound system for assessing the performance of learners and teachers and the efficacy of curricula at the undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education levels.
Contact
- If you have any questions about the course, please contact Julie Sodeman at [email protected]
- For any technical questions, please contact us at [email protected].
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
Paul J. Schenarts, MD, FACS, MAMSE, Course Chair -Nothing to Disclose
Maura E. Sullivan, MS, PhD, Course Director -Nothing to Disclose
David A. Rogers, MD, MHPE, FACS, FAAP -Nothing to Disclose
Roy Phitayakorn, MD, MHPE, MAMSE, FACS -Nothing to Disclose
Jeremy Lipman, MD, MHPE, FACS, FASCRS -Nothing to Disclose
Adnan Alseidi, MD, EdM, FACS - Nothing to Disclose
Stephen D. Kiess, JD - Nothing to Disclose
Staff Consultants
Ajit K. Sachdeva, MD, FACS, FRCSC, FSACME, MAMSE -Nothing to Disclose
Patrice Gabler Blair, DrPH, MPH -Nothing to Disclose
Sue Lawler, PhD, CPA, MBA -Nothing to Disclose
Kim Davis, MAT, MT(ASCP), CPTM -Nothing to Disclose
Julie Sodeman, M.Ed., PMP -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 enduring activity for a maximum of 42.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physician should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Course Completion
To receive the CME Certificate for credits earned, participants will need to complete the following:
- Review all online course materials
- Participate in the live course
- Complete post-course evaluations
Available Credit
- 42.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
To Enroll/Register
The course is limited to 40 participants. Letters of notification regarding course acceptance have been emailed to respective participants to enroll. All participants are expected to attend the entire course and remain until its conclusion.
To Start Course
Once you have completed the registration process, you will see the "Take Course" button above, click on the button to start/access the educational activity.