ACS/ASE Medical Student Core Curriculum

Curriculum Description

The American College of Surgeons (ACS) Division of Education and the Association for Surgical Education (ASE) have collaborated to develop an online resource for medical students, medical school faculty, and clinical faculty. The ACS/ASE Medical Student Core Curriculum addresses the competency-based surgical cognitive skills needed by all medical students, not just those pursuing surgery, prior to graduation.

These essential surgery topics were identified through an extensive needs assessment and reflect the input of surgical and nonsurgical faculty, deans, and medical students across the country. The Curriculum—developed in accordance with this consensus—provides the foundation of core surgical knowledge needed by all medical students irrespective of their future specialties. The Curriculum may also be used to develop standardized assessments of essential knowledge of medical students completing their core surgical clerkships.

The project is being led by Marc A. de Moya, MD, FACS, and Ranjan Sudan, MD, FACS, under the aegis of the ACS Division of Education, and is incorporating the contributions of surgeon educators throughout the country.

Watch recorded seminars of the modules by expert faculty in various surgical specialties.

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Access the ACS/ASE Medical Student Core Curriculum

For assistance, comments, or questions, contact Krashina Hudson, Senior Administrator, Resident and Medical Student Curricula, khudson@facs.org or 312-202-5335.

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ACS Staff

Michelle R. Armstrong, MAED, MA, C-TAGME
Senior Manager, Programs to Enhance Resident and Medical Student Education
marmstrong@facs.org
312-202-5488

Tim Hotze, MA
E-Learning Software Developer
thotze@facs.org
312-202-5032

Krashina S. Hudson, MS
Senior Administrator, Resident and Medical Student Curricula, Division of Education, American College of Surgeons
khudson@facs.org
312-202-5335

The ACS/ASE Medical Student Core Curriculum committee would like to acknowledge the ASE Curriculum Committee (1996-1998 and 2001) who developed the initial symptom and problem-based objectives that laid the foundation for the national needs assessment and new curriculum.

Contact Us

For additional information about the ACS/ASE Medical Student Core Curriculum, please contact Krashina Hudson at khudson@facs.org or at 312-202-5335.

Steering Committee

ACS/ASE Medical Student Core Curriculum Steering Committee

Marc A. de Moya, MD, FACS

Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Co-Chair

Ranjan Sudan, MD, FACS

Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Co-Chair

Linda M. Barney, MD, FACS

Wright State University, Dayton, OH

Patrice Gabler Blair, DrPH, MPH

American College of Surgeons, Chicago, IL

Kimberly M. Brown, MD, FACS

University of Texas, Austin, TX

Andre R. Campbell, MD, FACS

University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Loretto Glynn, MD, FACS

Parkview Regional Medical Center, Fort Wayne, IN

Celeste M. Hollands, MD, FACS, FAAP

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and Covenant Children’s Hospital, Lubbock, TX

Ajit K. Sachdeva, MD, FRCSC, FACS, FSACME, MAMSE

American College of Surgeons, Chicago, IL

Stephen C. Yang, MD, FACS

Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD