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AEI Quarterly

ACS-AEI Courses

IRCAD, Strasbourg, France

October 16–18, 2023

Live & lab for general surgeons, advanced course

Course Objectives:

  • Become familiar with the most advanced minimal invasive techniques for the treatment of the gastrointestinal tract, liver, pancreas, and spleen diseases
  • Learn about application of new technologies to minimally invasive approaches
    and modern endoscopic and percutaneous interventional procedures
  • Discover new technologies for augmented imaging, robotics, and artificial intelligence applied to general surgery
  • Acquire advanced laparoscopic skills in the lab: suturing, stapling, handsewn anastomosis, and bleed controls in emergency situations
  • Interact with best international experts to learn state of the art about surgical techniques and
    new technologies
  • Discuss interesting and challenging clinical cases

Learn more and register today.

 

October 23–27, 2023

Intensive course on basic gastrointestinal endoscopy

Course Objectives:

  • Provide the basic knowledge required for the safe use of gastrointestinal endoscopy
  • Describe all technical and physiological principles of gastrointestinal endoscopy
  • Critically review the most common endoscopic procedures
  • Learn or improve endoscopic skills by repeatedly handling the endoscope and performing polypectomy and hemostatic procedures, becoming confident with capsule endoscopy during hands-on sessions

Learn more and register today.

 

November 30–December 2, 2023

New perspectives in hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery, advanced course

Course Objectives:

  • Cover a broad spectrum of surgical procedures in hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery
  • Provide indications for surgical treatment and discuss operative complications
  • Highlight technicalities of surgical interventions through the broadcasting of live procedures
  • Allow a real-time discussion between the operators and the trainee surgeons
  • Provide hands-on sessions to improve skills in laparoscopic surgery through the practice on live tissue under expert tutorial
  • Describe postoperative clinical results and practical applications of evidence-based clinical medicine

Learn more and register today.

In This Issue

AEI Quarterly

Review Highlights from the 2023 ACS Surgical Simulation Summit

The 16th Annual Meeting of the ACS Accredited Education Institutes (ACS-AEI) Consortium was held in-person March 3 - 5 in Chicago, Illinois for the first time since 2020.

AEI Quarterly

View a Recap of the ACS-AEI Conference MORE Track Program

The 2023 Annual ACS-AEI Surgical Simulation Summit was selected as the in-person forum where the ACS-AEI Administration and Management (A&M) Committee’s M.O.R.E. Track would present as a part of the Annual Summit’s general session agenda.

AEI Quarterly

ACS Surgeons and Engineers: A Dialogue on Surgical Simulation Meeting

The full-day 2023 ACS Surgeons and Engineers: A Dialogue on Surgical Simulation meeting was held in-person on March 1 with notable success.

AEI Quarterly

Save the Date for the 2024 Surgical Simulation Summit

The ACS will host the 17th Annual Surgical Simulation Summit on Thursday, March 14 – Friday, March 15, 2024 at the Swissôtel in downtown Chicago, IL.

AEI Quarterly

Read ACS-AEI Committee Updates

The ACS-AEI committees were revisited in 2022 with the start of a staff-led committee engagement project to re-energize our groups, which have been in place since 2010.
AEI Quarterly

Surgery Accepts Six Manuscripts from 2022 Surgical Simulation Summit

The ACS-AEI is pleased to announce that the journal Surgery has accepted six manuscripts from last year’s virtual Annual Surgical Simulation Summit Papers Sessions, held on March 3-4, 2022.