Task Force on Interpersonal and Communication Skills

Goals:

To comprehensively address the competency of Interpersonal and Communication Skills across the continuum of professional development, with special emphasis on practicing surgeons and surgery residents; to use contemporary educational principles and state-of-the-art technology to achieve optimum outcomes; and to share recommendations and information with the Committee on Education to facilitate the achievement of the overall educational agenda of the American College of Surgeons.

Chair:

L. D. Britt, MD, MPH, FACS, Norfolk, VA

Members:

Kathryn D. Anderson, MD, FACS, Los Angeles, CA
John J. Coleman III, MD, FACS, Indianapolis, IN
Alasdair K. T. Conn, MD, FACS, Boston, MA
Thomas F. Dodson, MD, FACS, Atlanta, GA
Thomas R. Gadacz, MD, FACS, Augusta, GA
Ira J. Kodner, MD, FACS, St. Louis, MO
Nicholas P. Lang, MD, FACS, Little Rock, AR
Pamela A. Rowland, PhD, Lebanon, NH
Carol Scott-Conner, MD, PhD, FACS, Iowa City, IA
Richard K. Spence, MD, FACS, Birmingham, AL
Steven C. Stain, MD, FACS, Nashville, TN
Barbara K. Temeck, MD, FACS, Hines, IL
Richard E. Welling, MD, FACS, Cincinnati, OH
Linn Meyer, ex officio, Chicago, IL

Staff:

Ajit K. Sachdeva, MD, FACS, FRCSC
Patrice Gabler Blair, MPH
Emily Bakken

The Task Force on Interpersonal and Communication Skills welcomes your comments. Please write to the Task Force's staff liaison, Emily Bakken, at ebakken@facs.org.

Revised September 27, 2007

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