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 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.
The following individuals serve in leadership roles with the Resident and Associate Society of the American College of Surgeons (RAS-ACS). Individuals interested in being considered for appointment to the RAS-ACS Executive Committee, other committees, or to serve as a liaison representative to a College Chapter, Advisory Council, Board of Governors Workgroup, or ACS Committee should explore our open call for volunteers.
Five RAS-ACS committees are open to member participation. For additional information on a specific committee, or to join a committee, contact RASNews@facs.org.
Familiarize residents and young surgeons in all surgical specialties with the College and its programs and leadership
Provide an avenue for participation in College affairs
Enable members to develop and use leadership skills in organized surgery
Provide opportunities for the opinions and concerns of residents and young surgeons to be heard by the College leadership
While other medical societies have developed similar resident organizations, the RAS-ACS is the only surgical organization devoted to the concerns and needs of all surgical residents and young surgeons.
Benefits
Participation in RAS-ACS provides the following benefits:
Free access to the College's job bank
Information on clinical and research fellowship opportunities
Free subscription to the Journal of the American College of Surgeons
Newsletter and website
Educational materials to meet the requirements for board certification
Opportunities to serve on various committees of the College
Free early registration for Clinical Congress and access to CME credits
Clinical Congress programming designed to meet the needs of surgical residents and young surgeons
Access to ACS-sponsored insurance programs (life, health, disability)
Opportunities for local chapter affiliation
A voice in advocacy and policy-making issues concerning residents and young surgeons
For additional information regarding the benefits, activities, and how to join the sub-committees of the RAS-ACS, please contact RASNews@facs.org.
