Apply by Friday for Virtual General Surgery Oral Exam Prep Course

The ACS is hosting two 1-day virtual courses to help prepare candidates for the General Surgery Certifying Examination. The courses, on February 14 and February 17, will focus on strategies candidates can use to rapidly develop concise patient care plans in response to oral case scenarios, succinctly convey care plans including key decision points and rationale, and interact effectively with examiners. The course is led by Chair L.D. Britt, MD, MPH, FACS, FCCM, ACS Past-President, and Co-Chair E. Christopher Ellison, MD, FACS. ACS President.

Most of the course time will be devoted to simulated oral examinations that address the breadth of general surgery content. Each candidate will participate in three mock oral examinations with three different faculty pairs who will provide individualized verbal and written feedback regarding each case scenario and each examination session overall. Faculty for this convenient course include renowned surgical leaders such as David B. Hoyt, MD, FACS, Immediate-Past Executive Director; Regent Fabrizio Michelassi, MD, FACS.

Course evaluations have shown that candidates feel more prepared to take the oral examination because of the course. Chief residents particularly appreciated being examined by surgeons they had not meet previously, receiving individualized feedback, learning to approach the oral examination as a thought process, and learning to pace their responses to focus on the critical portions of a case.

Visit the course web page and submit a completed application to ceprepcourse@facs.org no later than January 27.