Professional Growth and Wellness

You're Not Alone

Through education, resources, tools, and advocacy, the ACS fosters and encourages surgeon’s health and well-being to ensure the physical and mental strength necessary to support their professional pursuits and provide optimal patient care. At a systems level, the ACS advocates for worksite cultures that support optimal work-life integration for surgeons.

Surgical Residents Have Extraordinary Career Opportunities at Clinical Congress

The American College of Surgeons (ACS) Clinical Congress 2025 will be held in Chicago October 4-7. ACS Resident and Associate Society Chair, Rachael Essig, MD, explains the powerful career benefits of networking with a global community of surgeons in all disciplines.

Governance

Committees

ACS Committees represent various aspects of the surgical profession to help serve you as a member of the College.

Awards and Fellowships

The International Relations Committee of the American College of Surgeons offers financial support for chosen Fellows to travel abroad. Applications are due by July 28, 2025.

Membership

Traveling Fellowship to Australia and New Zealand

Membership

Traveling Fellowship to Germany

Awards

George H. A. Clowes, Jr., MD, FACS, Memorial Research Career Development Award

The purpose of the Clowes Award is to support the research of a promising young surgical investigator. Applications due July 14.

Fellowships

Gerald B. Healy, MD, FACS, Traveling Mentorship Fellowship

The colleagues and friends of Dr. Gerald B. Healy have established funding for an annual mentoring fellowship program in his honor. Apply by June 30.

Fellowships

Claude H. Organ, Jr., MD, FACS, Traveling Fellowship

The family and friends of the late Claude H. Organ, Jr., MD, FACS, have established an endowment through the ACS Foundation. Apply by June 30.

Events

Leadership and Advocacy Summit

Save the date for the 2026 ACS Leadership and Advocacy Summit: February 28-March 3 in Washington, DC!

Bulletin

Peer Coaching May Be “Prescription” to Solve Side Effects of Healthcare Corporatization

Learn how a peer-to-peer program may decrease the dissatisfaction and feelings of burnout often associated with healthcare corporatization.

Membership

Surgeon Well-Being

The ACS Surgeon Well-Being program is committed to strengthen, support, and be an agent of change for surgeons.

Clinical Scholars in Residence

The ACS offers 2-year onsite fellowships in surgical outcomes research, health services research, and healthcare policy.

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Practice Management

Find articles, resources, and tools to help you run a successful practice, negotiate your employment, become proficient and stay current in procedure coding, and more.

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