CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION CREDIT INFORMATION
Accreditation
The American College of Surgeons is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
The American College of Surgeons designates this live activity for a maximum of 4.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Of the AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ listed above, a maximum of 3.25 credits meet the requirements for Self-Assessment.
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Disclosures
In accordance with the ACCME Accreditation Criteria, the American College of Surgeons must ensure that anyone in a position to control the content of the educational activity (planners and speakers/authors/discussants/moderators) has disclosed all financial relationships with any commercial interest (termed by the ACCME as “ineligible companies”, defined below) held in the last 24 months. Please see the attached PDF to this for the complete disclosure list.
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Learning Objectives
This activity is designed for the practicing surgeon to gain an understanding of current surgical research and its clinical applications as well as current socio-economic issues. There will be invited guest lecturers, podium presentations, poster displays, and solicited audience discussion. At the end of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Participants will be able to describe the spectrum of challenges currently present in today’s surgical education
- Participants will be able to recognize various wellness issues faced by surgeons along their career spectrum
- Participants will be able to explain the latest challenges in surgical subspecialties.
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The Massachusetts Chapter of the American College of Surgeons wishes to recognize and thank the following companies for their monetary commercial support that contributed to the success of the 68th Annual Meeting! Gold Olympus America, Inc. Silver Applied Medical Bronze KARL STORZ Endoscopy The American College of Surgeons wishes to recognize and thank the following company(ies) for their in-kind commercial support Top Gun Competition Applied Medical Ethicon Limbs & Things The ACS Massachusetts Chapter wishes to recognize and thank the following companies for their commercial/exhibitor promotion towards this educational activity Exhibitors: Platinum Genentech Inc. Gold Medtronic Olympus America, Inc. Bronze Ethicon W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. Abbott Nutrition Applied Medical BD Boston Scientific Fuji Films Heron Therapeutics Innocoll Biotherapeutics KARLZ STORZ Endoscopy Limbs & Things Global Stryker Endoscopy |