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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.

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Approved ACS Educational Programs Qualify for Royal College Section 3 Credit

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The American College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada have a collaboration that expands the diversity of Section 3 credits available to Royal College Fellows and participants in the Royal College’s Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Program. With this collaboration, approved ACS surgical accredited learning and assessment activities that meet the requirements of self-assessment programs have been added to the Royal College’s MAINPORT ePortfolio. Currently approved ACS educational activities are listed below. Individuals must successfully complete the Self-Assessment requirement and claim CME in order to be eligible.

This page will be updated as additional programs are approved.

Read the press release.

Impact on Royal College Fellows and MOC Participants

The credit recognition agreement officially began on November 1, 2020. It impacts Royal College Fellows and MOC Participants in the following way:

  • Any approved ACS activities that Royal College Fellows and MOC Participants complete starting on November 1, 2020, may be submitted for Section 3 MOC credit under Self-Assessment Programs.
  • Activities completed prior to November 1, 2020, must be submitted for Section 2 MOC credit under Personal Learning Projects.

Approved ACS Activities

Additional Information

For more information, visit the Royal College Maintenance of Certification Program. If you have questions, contact: