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James Fleshman, MD, FACS, FASCRS, will share strategies that further continuous surgical quality improvement in the Herand Abcarian Lecture: Quality, Leadership, and Zero Harm. “Quality is the bedrock, it requires leadership, and the result is zero harm,” he says.
Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs Jonathan Woodson, MD, FACS, USAR, will discuss how technology has accelerated the pace of change for health care delivery in the Excelsior Surgical Society/Edward D. Churchill Lecture.
In this year’s Scudder Oration on Trauma: I’m Not Comfortable with This, Gregory J. Jurkovich, MD, FACS, explores the mindset behind a refrain that has become increasingly common as specialization grows in medicine.
Caprice Greenberg, MD, MPH, FACS, challenges the surgery community to find innovative ways to interact online in the Olga M. Jonasson Lecture: Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste: Continuing Professional Development in COVID-19.
Panelists including Heather L. Evans, MD, MS, FACS, offer insight into Hot Topics in Surgical Patient Safety such as protocols for personal protective equipment in the operating room during the COVID-19 pandemic, strategies to prevent surgical site infections, and more.
Disruptive, unprofessional behavior in the OR has real consequences. Nicolas C. Restrepo, MD, and Larry Harmon, PhD, discussed the PULSE 360 feedback tool in a panel session addressing this pervasive problem.
John Chuck, MD, PhD, FACS, and other panelists address methods to promote surgeon wellness and prevent burnout.
Drs. Rebecca W. Schroll, Keith Delman, and Mary Klingensmith discuss the critical need for academic surgeons to spend time teaching trainees amid all the other demands placed on these surgeons.
Brooke Bredbeck, MD, and Sriram Rangarajan, MD, join the debate Resident Unionization: Future of Resident Advocacy or Deterioration of Our Profession? in the RAS-ACS Symposium.
The Medical Student Program, which convened virtually on Sunday, October 3, was developed specifically for medical students considering a career in surgery. Sponsored by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) […]
Eugene Cone, MD, and Xiang Gao, MD, MPH, share first-place honors in the Commission on Cancer’s annual Cancer Research Paper Competition. They were selected from a field of 97 submitted papers.
The Surgical Education and Self-Assessment Program (SESAP®) 17 Advanced content builds on the same educational foundations as SESAP 17. Both provide the highest caliber surgical education content for practicing surgeons.
Attendees of the virtual Clinical Congress can maximize their educational experience with the more than 40 sessions offering AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ and 10 sessions designated as offering Credit to Address Regulatory Mandates on today’s schedule.