2012 Clinical Congress Preview
Save the Date!
September 30 – October 4, 2012
Chicago, IL
An outstanding educational program is planned for surgeons and their colleagues.
Meet the Expert Luncheons
The highly successful and in demand Meet the Expert Luncheons will again be offered at the 2012 Clinical Congress. Timely topics and challenging surgical cases will be discussed in an informal manner over lunch, facilitated by an “expert” on the subject matter.
Named Lectures
The Named Lectures feature lecture presentations by pre-eminent surgical leaders. Past lecturers have also included leaders in business, politics, the military, and the media.
Panel Session Highlights
Over 100 panel sessions, running Monday – Thursday (October 1-4), will cover a wide range of topics of interest to surgeons across the surgical specialties.
Some specialty specific sessions include:
- The Nasty Gallbladder
- Severe Acute Pancreatitis: What to Do
- Reoperative Abdominal Surgery after a Previous “Catastrophe”
- Catheter-Based Cardiac Valve Surgery
- Diverticulitis: Changing Paradigms of Treatment
- Return to Play Issues in Sports-Related Neurotrauma
- Obstetric Hemorrhage: They Might Call You
- Ocular Trauma in the ER, in the OR, and on the Battlefield
- Preventing and Managing Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery Complications
- Thoracic Surgery in Childhood and Infancy: Implications for Adult Survivors
- Abdominal Wall Reconstruction: Treating the Recurrent/Recalcitrant Belly
- Managing the Axilla in Breast Cancer
- Sexual Dysfunction: Diagnosis and Management
- Interventions to Treat Venous Thromboembolism
Sessions that can help in obtaining special certificates for credentialing will be presented. Proposed topics include:
- Ethical Issues and the Tension Between Older and Younger Surgeons
- Acute Care Surgery: A Typical Night on Call
- After Discharge: Rehabilitation and End Results after Major Trauma
Join us in kicking off the College’s centennial celebration by attending the following historically-focused sessions:
- Founders of Private Clinics and the Early History of the ACS
- Nobel Prize Winning Surgeons
- The Committee on Trauma of the American College of Surgeons: Past, Present, and Future
Postgraduate Didactic Courses
Clinical Congress attendees can expect a well-rounded selection of Postgraduate Courses to earn anywhere from four to 12 hours of CME credits.
Two Didactic Skills courses based on ACS courses under the Education track will be offered:
- Surgical Education: Principles and Practice
- NEW! Advanced Leadership Skills
This year a new course will be offered and added to our selection of well attended review courses. These courses will aid you in your certification or recertification efforts and refresh you on the essentials of your field of practice:
- General Surgery Review Course
- Review Course in the Essentials of Vascular Surgery for General and Vascular Surgeons
- NEW! Surgical Critical Care Board Review
The General Surgery Coding and Reimbursement Committee is once again sponsoring two coding courses:
- 2012 Introduction to CPT, ICD-10-CM, and Evaluation and Management Coding
- 2012 Advanced Office-Based Coding and Reimbursement
Back by popular demand, our most popular courses from past Clinical Congresses will return this year:
- Didactic Breast Course
- Challenging Surgical Emergencies: What to Do in the Middle of the Night
- Benign Anorectal Disease
And to debut at the 2012 Clinical Congress, the following courses have been selected based on the requests from Clinical Congress attendees:
- NEW! Bundle Care and the Future of Surgical Healthcare: Delivery and Outcomes
- NEW! Management of Diabetic Lower Extremities
- NEW! Trauma Techniques: From Top to Bottom
Postgraduate Skills-Oriented Courses
Three new courses will debut in 2012:
- Patient Safety and Quality in Rural Surgery: Advanced Skills Training for the Rural Surgeon
- Robotic Pelvic Surgery
- Telemedicine in Surgery: Building a Virtual Practice
In addition, four ultrasound courses will be offered:
- Basic Breast Ultrasound
- Focused ECHO: Ultrasound Applications for the ICU
- Hepatobiliary Ultrasound: Principals and Techniques
- Thyroid and Parathyroid Ultrasound
Back by popular demand, the following courses will again be offered:
- Laparoscopic Colectomy Skills Course
- Flexible Endoscopy for General Surgeons
- Humanitarian Surgery: Surgical Skills Training for the International Volunteer Surgeon
- Advanced Colonoscopy Skills Course: Polypectomy and Beyond
Scientific Paper Sessions
These sessions provide timely, innovative information and findings on original scientific research, surgical procedures, practices, and approaches to practicing surgeons, residents, and medical students. Plan to visit some of these presentations to find out what is cutting-edge in your specialty and across disciplines affecting all of surgery.
Scientific Poster Presentations
Poster presentations will provide timely, innovative information and findings on original scientific research, surgical procedures, practices, and approaches to practicing surgeons, residents and medical students. Posters will be on display during the lunch-time break, where authors will be available to speak about their work and answer questions. Top abstracts will receive the Poster of Exceptional Merit distinction where one will be selected as the Best Scientific Poster Presentation.
Surgical Forum
The Surgical Forum program allows scientific investigators in-training an opportunity to present their work before a national audience for the first time.
Technical Exhibits
The technical exhibit hall will be open Monday, October 1 through Wednesday, October 3, 2012 from 9am – 4:30pm in McCormick Place West. Further information will be available in February.
Town Hall Meetings
Town Hall Meetings provide a venue for discussion of topics that are relevant to the ACS membership and sponsoring committees of the Clinical Congress. The informal atmosphere (no presentations are made) is intended to foster the free exchange of ideas among presenters and attendees.
Video-based Education Program will highlight
- Subject-oriented Symposiums
- Spine Access
- Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery
- D3 Video Imaging
- Managing Surgical Complications
- Surgical Endoscopy
- Abdominal Neuro-endocrine Tumors
- Video Sessions:
- Challenging and Unusual Problems in Surgery
- Bariatric Surgery
- Highlights from International Meetings
- Movie Classics from the past
Webcast Packages
Clinical Congress attendees will have the opportunity to purchase the Webcast sessions this year. The Webcast sessions are PowerPoint presentations that are audio synchronized with the talk. These presentations offer an opportunity to earn CME credits after successfully completing an online CME examination and evaluation. For more information or to purchase 2011 Webcast packages, visit www.acs-resource.org or e-mail elearning@facs.org.
Revised January 26, 2012