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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Become a Member
Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Membership Benefits
ACS
Clinical Congress 2024

Registration Information

Registration is open to all physicians and individuals in the healthcare field and includes entrance to the exhibits and all sessions*, other than ticketed sessions, which include Postgraduate Courses, Meet-the Expert sessions, and other special interest sessions and engagement events.

*The following sessions are included with your registration for the in-person Clinical Congress and are not ticketed:

  • Named Lectures
  • Panel Sessions
  • Scientific Posters
  • Scientific Forum
  • Town Hall Meetings
  • Video-Based Education Sessions

Registering for these sessions does not guarantee seating, which is provided on a first-come, first-served basis until the meeting room is full. Registering for the in-person meeting includes access to all virtual content.

In-person attendees are able to experience the onsite program and may also register for Postgraduate Courses if availability permits. They also will have access to the livestreamed Convocation, as well as all on-demand recordings, which will be available within a few hours after being presented.

Virtual attendees will have access to the livestreamed Convocation and selected on-demand content. Please see the Interactive Program Planner for a full list of available sessions.

All attendees have the opportunity to claim more than 200 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™, earn self-assessment credits, and meet other regulatory requirements.

Registration Category

In-Person plus Virtual Access

Virtual Only

Early Bird
through 8/26

Advance
8/27-10/9

Standard
10/10-10/22

Virtual Rate

Fellow/Associate Fellow (2024 dues paid)

$625

$699

$799

$799

International Fellow (High/Upper Middle Income Country)**

$396

$470

$550

$550

International Fellow (Low Middle Income Country)**

$82

$156

$236

$236

International Fellow (Low Income Country)**

$41

$115

$195

$195

Retired/Senior Fellow***

$225

$299

$324

$324

Initiate

$0

$0

$0

$0

Resident^

$0

$0

$55

$55

Medical Student^

$0

$0

$25

$25

Affiliate Member (CME)

$231

$305

$385

$385

Guest Physician Including Nonmember Surgeon†

$1245

$1319

$1399

$1399

Hospital Administrator

$1120

$1194

$1274

$1274

Healthcare Teammate (Nurse, Office Manager, Technician)

$750

$824

$904

$904

Guest‡

$45

$119

$119

$119

Child (15 and under)

$0

$0

$0

$0

Registration Category

In-Person plus Virtual Access

Virtual Only

Early Bird
through 8/26

Advance
8/27-10/9

Standard
10/10-10/22

Virtual Rate

Fellow/Associate Fellow (2024 dues paid)

$625

$699

$799

$799

International Fellow (High/Upper Middle Income Country)**

$396

$470

$550

$550

International Fellow (Low Middle Income Country)**

$82

$156

$236

$236

International Fellow (Low Income Country)**

$41

$115

$195

$195

Retired/Senior Fellow***

$225

$299

$324

$324

Initiate

$0

$0

$0

$0

Resident^

$0

$0

$55

$55

Medical Student^

$0

$0

$25

$25

Affiliate Member (CME)

$231

$305

$385

$385

Guest Physician Including Nonmember Surgeon†

$1245

$1319

$1399

$1399

Hospital Administrator

$1120

$1194

$1274

$1274

Healthcare Teammate (Nurse, Office Manager, Technician)

$750

$824

$904

$904

Guest‡

$45

$119

$119

$119

Child (15 and under)

$0

$0

$0

$0

Attendees must be a member of the American College of Surgeons at the time of registration to receive the member rate. Refunds will not be provided to those who become members after registering.

Commercial representatives may obtain the commercial registration form by emailing a request to clinconreg@facs.org.

**Please see this list for country income status as advised by the World Bank.

***A Retired/Senior ACS Fellow is an individual who has notified the College, meets the ACS definition of Retired/Senior, has been granted Retired/Senior status, and is officially listed in the ACS database as Retired/Senior. The ACS definition of a Retired/Senior member is a surgeon who is not in the active practice of providing surgical or nonsurgical patient care, participating in funded research, or performing compensated teaching or administrative duties. Questions about Retired/Senior member status should be directed to dues@facs.org.

^A nonmember Resident or Medical Student registering for Clinical Congress will be granted automatic membership in the American College of Surgeons. Application fees will be waived if appropriate documentation is supplied verifying Resident or Medical Student status.

All nonmembers who pay the applicable Clinical Congress registration fees will have their membership application fees waived if they apply for American College of Surgeons membership onsite at the Clinical Congress.

Guest Registration
Guest registration is meant for nonmedical attendees only. All Guest registrants must be accompanied by a Clinical Congress registrant of another category. The Guest fee entitles the recipient to attend scientific sessions, view the technical and scientific exhibits, and use the shuttle bus service. Guests are not eligible to attend postgraduate courses or Meet-the-Expert sessions, nor are they eligible for CME credits or Certificates of Attendance.

Registration and Membership Questions

Should you have any questions regarding Clinical Congress registration, please contact Registration Services. Phone registrations are not accepted.

Registration Services
clinconreg@facs.org
Phone: 312-202-5244
Fax: 312-202-5003

Should you have any questions regarding your ACS membership prior to registering for the Clinical Congress, please contact Member Services at:

Fellow Dues and Status
877-277-0036 or dues@facs.org

Fellows and Applicants for Fellowship
800-293-9623 or facsapplications@facs.org

Associate Fellow, Resident, Medical Student, and Affiliate Members
800-293-4029 or enroll@facs.org

2024 Clinical Congress Initiates
800-621-4111 or acsinitiate@facs.org

For information on becoming an ACS member and to complete a membership application, please visit our Membership Benefits page.

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Policies

Cancelations

Registration refunds will be issued if written requests are postmarked no later than 11:59 pm CT, Monday, September 30, 2024. A $50 handling fee will be retained for all refunds. Cancelations and registrations sent after the deadline will not be eligible for refunds. Cancelations and registrations postmarked after the deadline will not be eligible for refunds. Please send a written request to Registration Services via email at clinconreg@facs.org  or by fax to 312-202-5003.

The American College of Surgeons reserves the right to cancel any regularly scheduled session prior to the start of the meeting and will make every effort to immediately notify registrants of a cancelation.

Substitutions

Conference attendee substitution from one attendee to another is not permitted.