Group Enrollment and Billing Portal Frequently Asked Questions

• Graduation from a medical school acceptable to the American College of Surgeons (ACS)
• Current status as a resident enrolled in an accredited training program focused on an American Board of Medical Specialties surgical specialty, or current status as a surgeon in a second residency, surgical research, or surgical fellowship program acceptable to the ACS

Interns have their application fee waived. All other residents, and Fellows, incur a $20 application fee. Resident members are dues exempt for the 2022-2023 academic year.

On April 1, residents and programs will be notified by email that the annual renewal cycle has started. Programs may use the Group Enrollment and Billing Portal to enroll trainees as new members and to submit verification of trainee status for renewing membership.

Renewals are due by July 1. For Resident members, we follow the U.S. academic year, so memberships are active from July 1 through June 30 of a given year. Memberships that remain unrenewed at the end of the calendar year are discontinued.

Yes. Applications for Resident membership are accepted year round.

For each resident, you will need to provide their:

• Current contact information
• Information about their medical education
• Information about their status in your training program
• Details about their medical license
• Information about their graduate degrees (other than their MD), if applicable
• Information about their military service, if applicable

If your request for group renewal is initiated before the paper renewal notices are printed in mid-April, your residents will not receive renewal notices by mail.

Yes. If a resident leaves your program, you may log into the portal to update your program’s membership roster. The resident will be removed from your list, but their membership will remain active with ACS and they will be responsible for maintaining it independent of your program.

If a resident has renewed their membership before your group renewal has been submitted, confirm that the information in our system is correct and proceed with the renewal.

When your residents become members, they will be sent a welcome e-mail. The e-mail will provide them with information about accessing and updating their membership profile online and will introduce them to the benefits of membership. If your program will be renewing your residents’ membership annually, be sure to let them know to disregard the annual ACS renewal notifications.

If you know that your residents are members, you do not need to submit new enrollments for them, but you can use the renewal option to continue their memberships. If you do not know your residents’ ACS membership status and submit a new enrollment for a resident who is already an ACS member, your application fee payment will be refunded.

We are unable to accept applications for Resident membership from trainees who do not have either a Doctor of Medicine degree (MD) or a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree (DO). For non-MD/DO residents, we offer an Affiliate membership category that provides access to many of the benefits of ACS membership.

FSC enrollment includes the first year of ACS Resident membership free of charge. You do not need to enroll those residents as new members; however, they will appear in your portal so that you can pay renew their membership moving forward.

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The staff of the ACS Division of Member Services may be contacted at 800-293-4029 or enroll@facs.org.