Join the College in Celebrating ACS Surgeon Well-Being Month

As the ACS welcomes 2024, throughout January the College will be recognizing ACS Surgeon Well-Being Month, which highlights the College’s dedication to developing well-being initiatives, resources, partnerships, and advocacy.

The College inaugurated Surgeon Well-Being Month in January 2021 to have a dedicated time that honored the importance of well-being throughout one’s surgical career.

As we kick off this month, make sure to discover or review the many well-being resources on the ACS website. Among the resources are three impactful webinars, recorded in past years.

Surgeon as Caregiver—The Triple Threat: Caring for Yourself While Caring for a Loved One While Caring for Patients

This webinar features surgeons sharing their experience of navigating their surgical career, well-being, and being a present caregiver, from lessons learned to boundaries, compassion, empathy, the influence of being a surgeon caregiver, career trajectory, and more.

Managing Microaggressions: What to Do When It Gets Personal Webinar Series

In the first portion of this two-part webinar, a panel of speakers discusses various types of microaggressions, how microaggressions affect many populations both nationally and internationally, the cumulative effect of microaggressions, and introduces management and coping strategies. Participants in the second webinar discuss the management and coping strategies when facing microaggressions as the receiver and upstander.

Reframing Surgeon Well-Being: How the Trauma Model Informs Approaches to Well-Being Solutions at Systemic Levels

Watch a panel of experts discuss how to apply the trauma model to surgeon well-being and address various issues, factors, and drivers at all levels of well-being at an organization.