American College of Surgeons E-Learning Resource Center

Educational CD-ROMs

NEW! Patient Safety—Webcast Sessions of the 2006 Clinical Congress

Coming Soon! Patient Safety 2007 CD-ROM

Ultrasound for Surgeons: The Basic Course

Bariatric Surgery Primer

Personal Financial Planning and Management for Residents and Young Surgeons

Practice Management for Residents and Young Surgeons

Professionalism in Surgery: Challenges and Choices

NEW! 2007 Syllabi Select (Web-Based)

2006, 2005, 2004 Syllabi Select (CD-ROM Products)

Educational DVDs

NEW! Communicating with Patients about Surgical Errors and Adverse Outcomes

Disclosing Surgical Error: Vignettes for Discussion

Webcasts

The sessions are hosted online in their entirety with synchronized audio and slides that allow you to view them online as they were presented at the meeting. Sessions can be reviewed at your own pace, you may start and stop whenever you choose, and you may view them as many times as often as you like.

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93rd Annual Clinical Congress — 2007 webcasts will be available soon
92nd Annual Clinical Congress — 2006
GS01 Inguinal Hernia Repair: An Evidence-Based Approach (1.5 CME Credits)
           Moderator: Leigh A. Neumayer, MD, FACS 
GS14 Effective Communication: An Essential Competency to Enhance Surgical Care,
           Promote Safety, and Reduce Liability (2 CME Credits)
           Moderator: L. D. Britt, MD, MPH, FACS, Norfolk, VA
GS18 Esophageal-Gastric Junction Carcinoma (1.5 CME Credits)
           Moderator: Jeffrey H. Peters, MD, FACS
GS19 Laparoscopic Colectomy: How, Who, Why? (1.5 CME Credits)
           Moderator: Heidi Nelson, MD, FACS, Rochester, MN
GS21 Accreditation of Surgery Centers to Optimize Patient Care (3 CME Credits)
           Moderator: Andrew L. Warshaw, MD, FACS
GS26 Surgical Errors and Adverse Outcomes: Impact on Surgical Residents (2 CME Credits)
           Moderator: Stephen R. T. Evans, MD, FACS
GS32 Evolving Strategies for Patient Safety in the Operating Room: Time-Out and the
           Debriefing (1.5 CME Credits)
           Moderator: Julie Ann Freischlag, MD, FACS, Baltimore, MD
GS42 Acquisition and Validation of New Surgical Skills (1.5 CME Credits)
           Moderator: Ajit K. Sachdeva, MD, FACS, FRCSC
GS44 Acute Pancreatitis: Evidence-Based Management (1.5 CME Credits)
           Moderator: John C. Alverdy, MD, FACS
GS46 Surgical Simulators and Continued Learning in Surgery (1.5 CME Credits)
           Moderator: John C. Alverdy, MD, FACS
GS52 Designing Your Operating Room: What You Need to Know (3 CME Credits)
           CO-MODERATORS: Gerald M. Fried, MD, FACS, Steven D. Schwaitzberg, MD, FACS
GS57 Evolving Options in Breast-Preserving Treatment of Breast Cancer (1.5 CME Credits)
           Moderator: V. Suzanne Klimberg, MD, FACS
GS67 Choledocholithiasis: Diagnostic and Management Strategies (1.5 CME Credits)
           Moderator: Myriam J. Curet, MD, FACS
GS68 Practice-Based Learning and Improvement: An Essential Component of MOC
           (2 CME Credits)
           Moderator: Richard J. Finley, MD, FACS, Vancouver, BC
GS77 Intra-Abdominal Catastrophes: Timely Diagnosis and Emergency Treatment (1.5 CME
           Credits)
           Moderator: Christine S. Cocanour, MD, FACS
GS78 The Volume and Quality Conundrum: What Are the Data? (1.5 CME Credits)
           Moderator: Robin S. McLeod, MD, FACS, FRCSC
GS104 The Disruptive Professional (1.5 CME Credits)
             Moderator: Peter J. Fabri, MD, FACS
GS110 Understanding and Reducing Disparities in Surgical Care (2 CME Credits)
             Co-Moderators: John D. Birkmeyer, MD, FACS, Juan C. Cendan, MD, FACS
NL05 Ethics and Philosophy Lecture: Disclosing Medical Errors to Patients:
           A Challenge for Physicians (1 CME Credit)
           Lecturer: Wendy Levinson, MD, Toronto, ON
           Co-Moderators: John D. Birkmeyer, MD, FACS, Juan C. Cendan, MD, FACS
MD03 Complications in Surgery: Getting Out of Trouble in the Operating Room
           (2.5 CME Credit)

            Moderator: Mark A. Malangoni, MD, FACS, Cleveland, OH
34th Annual Spring Meeting — 2006
GS16  Excelsior Surgical Society/Edward D. Churchill Lecture: Pediatric Surgery: Heritage
            
of an Evolving Surgical Specialty (1 CME credit)
            Moderator: Mark A. Malangoni, MD, FACS
GS31  ACS/SAGES 2006 Assembly: IBD (2 CME credits)
            Co-Moderator: Steve Eubanks, MD, FACS
            Co-Moderator: Fabrizio Michelassi, MD, FACS
GS32  The Changing Face of Surgical Education: What Does It Mean? (2 CME credits)
            Co-Moderator: Mark A. Malangoni, MD, FACS
            Co-Moderator: Jeffrey L. Ponsky, MD, FACS
91st Annual Clinical Congress — 2005
GS10  How Can Professionalism Enhance Safety, Decrease Liability and Increase
            Profitability (1.5 CME credits)
            Moderator: Alden H. Harken, MD, FACS
GS11  New Technology in the Operating Room: Safe Implementation (2 CME credits)
            Moderator: Eric J. DeMaria, MD, FACS
GS15  Regional Support for Skills Training and Abdominal Sepsis: A Strategy
            for Management (2 CME credits)

            Moderator: Ajit K. Sachdeva, MD, FACS, FRCSC
SP07-  Diverticulitis - Dealing with the Complications (2 CME credits)
CR1     Moderator: David J. Schoetz, Jr., MD, FACS
GS18  What's New in Breast Cancer? From Ductal Lavage to Abliation and
            Adjuvant Strategies (1.5 CME credits)

            Moderator: S. Eva Singletary, MD, FACS
GS25  Cystic Neoplasms in the Pancreas: When To Operate/When Not To Operate
            (2 CME credits)

             Moderator: Murray F. Brennan, MD, FACS
MD02  Complications in Surgery: Getting Out of Trouble in the Operating Room (2 CME credits)
             Moderator: Alan S. Livingstone, MD, FACS
GS37  The Devil's in the Details: Avoiding Complications in Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
            (1.5 CME credits)

             Moderator: Steven M. Strasberg, MD, FACS
GS50  GERD Today: Medicate, Inject, Staple or Wrap? (1.5 CME credits)
             Moderator: Carlos A. Pellegrini, MD, FACS
GS54  Critical Decisions in Surgical Workforce Issues (1.5 CME credits)
            Moderator: Michael J. Zinner, MD, FACS
GS62  What You Need To Know about Maintenance of Certification (1.5 CME credits)
             Moderator: Frank R. Lewis, Jr., MD, FACS
GS64  Minimal Access Surgery: What's Proven, What's Not (3 CME credits)
            Moderator: Gerald M. Fried, MD, FACS
33rd Annual Spring Meeting — 2005
GS03  ACS/SAGES/AHPBA Welcome and Assembly: Modern Management of Colon Cancer
             (3 CME credits)
             Frederick L. Greene, MD, FACS
             Steven D. Wexner, MD, FACS
GS07  Excelsior Surgical Society/Edward D. Churchill Lecture: Primary Hyperparathyroidism
            The Changing Surgical Paradigm (1 CME credit)
            
Mark A. Malangoni, MD, FACS
            Edward R. Laws, MD, FACS
GS08  How to Get Out of Trouble in the OR (1.5 CME credits)
             Michael G. Sarr, MD, FACS
90th Annual Clinical Congress — 2004
CR04  Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer: Strategies for Success (1.5 CME credits)
             Robert D. Fry, MD, FACS
GS09  Practice-based Learning and Improvement: What Every Surgeon Needs to Know
            (2 CME Credits)

             Ajit K. Sachdeva, MD, FACS, FRCSC
GS16  Contemporary Management of Benign Breast Diseases (2 CME credits)
             Wiley W. Souba, MD, FACS
GS23  Barrett's Esophagus/Nissen Fundoplication and Its Role in the Prevention of Cancer
             (2 CME credits)

             Carlos A. Pellegrini, MD, FACS
GS30  Management of Malignant/Benign Biliary Strictures (2.5 CME credits)
             Michael G. Sarr, MD, FACS
GS32  Safety in the Operating Room: Lessons Learned from Aviation and Other Systems
             (2 CME credits)

             Julie Ann Freischlag, MD, FACS
GS40  Cutting-Edge Trauma Surgery: What's Proven, What's Not (3 CME credits)
             George C. Velmahos, MD, PhD, FACS
GS51  Breast Surgery: Has the Knife Lost Its Edge? (2.5 CME credits)
             Edgar D. Staren, MD, PhD, FACS
             Darius S. Francescatti, MD, FACS
PL03  Management of the BRCA-Positive Patient (3 CME credits)
             S. Eva Singletary, MD, FACS
32nd Annual Spring Meeting — 2004
GS01  Assembly for General Surgeons: A Town Meeting—Facing the Inevitible:
             Surgical Quality and Outcomes Made Public (3.75 CME credits)
             Shukri F. Khuri, MD, FACS
GS04  Genetics and Cancer: Implications for Surgeons (1.5 CME credits)
             Murrary F. Brennan, MD, FACS
GS05  Excelsior Surgical Society/Edward D. Churchill Lecture:
             Optimal Management of Pancreatic Cancer (1 CME credit)
             Andrew L. Warshaw, MD, FACS
89th Annual Clinical Congress — 2003

Sessions — Free access provided through an unrestricted educational grant

GS08  Acquiring Skills to Perform New Procedures: Principles, Challenges, and Opportunities
            (2 CME credits)

             Ajit K. Sachdeva, MD, FACS, FRCSC
GS21  Patient Safety in Clinical Surgery (2 CME credits)
             William Nugent, MD, FACS
GS37  ACS and the Core Competencies: Innovative Approaches for a New Era (2 CME credits)
             Ajit K. Sachdeva, MD, FACS

Special Pricing for Members and Residents

GS02  The Role of Surgery for Peptic Ulcer Disease in the H. Pylori Era (1.5 CME credits)
             Bruce Stabile, MD, FACS
GS05  New Technology: What's Proven, What's Not (2 CME credits)
             Christopher K. Zarins, MD, FACS
GS06  Recognition, Management and Prevention of Operative Room Catastrophes
            (2 CME credits)
             Christopher R. McHenry, MD, FACS
GS13  Key Issues in Management of Rectal Cancer (3 CME credits)
             
David A. Rothenberger, MD, FACS
GS16  Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy for Breast Cancer (2 CME credits)
             Armando E. Guiliano, MD, FACS
GS18  Groin Pain Management (2 CME credits)
             Robert J. FItzgibbons, Jr., MD, FACS
GS29  Management of Necrotizing Pancreatitis (1.5 CME credits)
             Andrew L. Warshaw, MD, FACS
GS36  Unexpected findings at Laparopscopic Cholecystectomy (2 CME credits)
             W. Scott Melvin, MD, FACS
GS47  Operative Techniques for Bad Situations (2.5 CME credits)
             David V. Feliciano, MD, FACS
MD07  Post-Operative Enterocutaneous Fistulas (1.5 CME credits)
             Herand Abcarian, MD, FACS

88th Annual Clinical Congress — 2002

Session — Free access provided through an unrestricted educational grant

GS10  Patient Safety (2 CME credits)
             Frank C. Spencer, MD, FACS

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