February 2009

Features

Postgraduate palliative medicine training for the surgeon: An update on the ABMS subspecialty certification (220K PDF)

Pacific Partnership 2008: U.S. Navy Fellows provide humanitarian assistance in Southeast Asia (370K PDF)

ACS Practice Patterns Survery, Part III: Use of surgical instruments and devices among surgical specialties (480K PDF)

The IVUmed Resident Scholar Program: Aiming to "Teach one, reach many" (245K PDF)

Statement on all-terrain vehicle injuries (75K PDF)

Statement on guidelines for collaboration of industry and surgical organizations in support of continuing education (75K PDF)

Departments

 From My Perspective (65K PDF)

News

 College appoints new Director of Division of Advocacy and Health Policy (60K PDF)

 2009 ACS Japan Traveling Fellow selected (60K PDF)

 Dr. McGrath named ACS commissioner to The Joint Commission (55K PDF)

 Trauma meetings calendar (55K PDF)

 In memoriam: Shukri F. Khuri, MD, FACS: May 27, 1943-September 26, 2008 (80K PDF)

 Call for nominations for the ACS Board of Regents (170K PDF)

 Fellows in the news (50K PDF)

 Call for nominations for ACS Officers-Elect (50K PDF)

 A look at The Joint Commission: Alert warns of blood thinner deaths and overdoses (50K PDF)

 2009 Call for Abstracts: CoC Paper Competition (120K PDF)

 NTDB® data points: 2008: V8 for kids

 Chapter news

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