One of the most exciting additions to recent Clinical Congresses has been the Multidisciplinary education track, which highlights topics and sessions that may be applicable to a broad range—or even all—surgeons.
Clinical Congress 2025 featured more than dozen multidisciplinary sessions, covering technologic, clinical, and wellbeing topics, and they are available to view through the on demand virtual platform.
Check out some of the highlights from the 2025 multidisciplinary track.
All these and more are available to view for in-persona and virtual conference attendees, and registration and access will remain open until February 23, 2026.
Using ChatGPT and AI for Beginners
Free artificial intelligence (AI) tools are rapidly becoming available, though learning to use these tools to enhance your personal and professional life takes time and effort. This session, one of the most-attended during the conference, provided a live demonstration showing how to access and use several AI tools that may prove beneficial to surgeons of any type. Areas of focus included AI tools for creating correspondence, identifying answers to questions, creating content for a presentation, creating a new image or graphic, and more.
Damage Control Surgery and Resuscitation in the Rural Environment: Preparation and Best Practices for Optimal Outcomes
Much of trauma care takes place in community and rural settings where specialists are not present, but incorporating knowledge from these experts can allow the practitioner to understand current management paradigms, provide optimal initial care, and evaluate when the patient requires transfer. This session included presentations by pediatric surgeons, neurosurgeons, ophthalmologic, vascular, and general surgeons discussing immediate and essential management of injuries for surgeons practicing in settings where specialists are not present.
Surgeons' Mental Health: Overcoming Distress and Preventing Suicide
300–400 physicians die by suicide each year in the US, with surgeons having the second highest rate among all specialties. This session addressed resources available through the ACS and other organizations for surgical leaders to directly address the epidemic of emotional and spiritual suffering experienced by most surgeons at one point or another during their career. It provided practical tools to allow surgical leaders at all levels to normalize treatment and discussion of mental illness, support colleagues and trainees in crisis, and develop ongoing quality improvement programs to improve surgeon well-being.
