ACS Cognitive Simulations: Cases Essential to Surgical Practice

• Frequent and immediate feedback
• Realistic patient scenarios
• Patterning to imprint a logical decision-making process
• Providing a safe learning environment
• Conditions associated with each of the 18 EPAs are included 

The product consists of 65 cases scenarios in topics essential to general surgical practice in the following areas:

• Abdomen
• Colorectal
• Gastrointestinal
• Hepatobiliary and Pancreas
• Trauma
• Endocrine
• Breast
• Vascular
• Skin and Soft Tissue
• Perioperative Care

The ACS Division of Education defined the essential knowledge areas, conditions and key learning points to be included in CogSim in conjunction with a steering committee of surgical educators. Cases are authored by expert surgical educators and peer reviewed by two additional surgeons. The development of cases is ongoing. 

Authors

• Cary Aarons, MD, MSEd, FACS
• Jacob Ackney, MD
• Adnan A. Alseidi, MD, EdM, FACS
• Charlotte Ariyan, MD, FACS
• Glenn T. Ault, MD, MSEd, FACS, FASCRS
• Jennifer S. Beaty, MD, FACS
• Devra Becker, MD, FACS
• Melissa E. Brunsvold, MD, FACS
• Lisa M. Cannon, MD, FACS
• Lily Chang, MD, FACS
• Richard B. Damewood, MD, FACS
• Daniel L. Dent, MD, FACS
• Dawn Marie Elfenbein, MD, MPH, FACS
• John L. Falcone, MD, MS, FACS
• Michelle M. Fillion, MD, FACS
• Sarah Fox, MD
• Nancy L. Gantt, MD, FACS
• Michael Gleason, MD
• Jesse Goddard, MD
•  Jacob A. Greenberg, MD, EdM, FACS
• Leander M. Grimm Jr., MD, FACS
• Carl Haisch, MD, FACS
• Nicholas Hamilton, MD, FACS
• Rebecca L. Hoffman, MD, MSCE, FACS
• William W. Hope, MD, FACS
• Eric Jensen, MD, FACS
• Adam S. Kabaker, MD, FACS
• Sunil S. Karhadkar, MBBS, FACS
• Yvonne Kelly, MD
• Brenessa Lindeman, MD, MEHP, FACS
• Hugh J. Lindsey, MD, MS, FACS
• Balia Maqbool, MBBS, FACS
• Carlos Marroquin, MD, FACS
• David Martin, MD
• Christina L. Maser, MD, FACS
• Katelyn Mellion, MD, FACS
• Robert Moglia, MD, FACS
• Jeffry T. Nahmias, MD, MHPE, FACS
• Kerri Ohman, MD, FACS
• Chelsea Olson, MD
• Conor O’Neill, MD
• Vihas Patel, MD, FACS
• Motaz Qadan, MD, FACS
• Jacob Quick, MD, FACS
• Chantal Reyna, MD, FACS
• Katie W. Russell, MD, FACS
• Andrew Saxe, MD, FACS
• Cary Jo Schlick, MD
• Sarah Samreen, MBBS, FACS
• Ian Seward, MD
• Saad Shebrain, MBBCh, FACS
• Joon Shim, MD, FACS
• Norma Smalls, MD, FACS
• Christopher Stahl, MD
• Danny M. Takanishi Jr., MD, FACS 

Steering Committee

• Glenn T. Ault, MD, MSEd, FACS, FASCRS
• Patrice Blair, DrPH, MPH
• Richard B. Damewood, MD, FACS
• Daniel L. Dent, MD, FACS
• John L. Falcone, MD, MS, FACS
• Nancy L. Gantt, MD, FACS
• Jacob Greenberg, MD, EdM, FACS
• Rebecca L. Hoffman, MD, MSCE
• Mohsen Shabahang, MD, PhD, FACS
• Brenessa Lindeman, MD, MEHP
• Roy Phitayakorn, MD, MHPE, FACS
• Katie W. Russell, MD
• Ajit Sachdeva, MD, FACS, FRCSC, FSACME, MAMSE
• Beth H. Sutton, MD, FACS
• Danny M. Takanishi Jr., MD, FACS