August 19, 2025
The ѻýrecently launched a new Strategic Plan, designed to advance organizational priorities and provide value to surgeons, the profession, and the patients they serve. The plan has four pillars and one foundational concept. This week, the ѻýBrief highlights the second pillar.
The second pillar of the ѻýStrategic Plan is focused on updating, expanding, and transforming ѻýeducational resources for surgeons.
The ѻýcontinues to innovate and update evidence-based courses for use across the entire trajectory of surgical training and practice. Forthcoming launches include the 11th edition of Advanced Trauma Life Support® (ATLS®), Surgical Education and Self-Assessment Program (SESAP®) 19 and SESAP® 19 Advanced, and resources for resident assessment, including the Objective Assessment of Skills in Surgery (OASIS), which uses simulation-based stations to measure resident performance, and a new Senior Resident Readiness Assessment (SRRA) complementing the ѻýEntering Resident Readiness Assessment (ERRA).
Additionally, expanded offerings at ѻýconferences, including Clinical Congress, will offer personalized education and new skills courses. Finally, an updated ѻýartificial intelligence/machine learning course will help ensure surgeons can use this technology rigorously and safely.
Revolutionizing means extending this work beyond individual courses to update the systems and methods underlying all ѻýeducational resources. The ѻýis modernizing all educational platforms and content, so more surgeons can access personalized, relevant offerings. This includes the new MyATLS app, Current Trends in General Surgery online course, ѻýIntegrated Curriculum for Surgical Education (ѻýINCISE) medical student platform and will include a new Cancer Operative Standards webinar series coming soon.
This pillar also includes fostering greater collaborations with a wide range of specialty organizations to educate surgeons and surgical trainees. This incorporates increasing the impact of the annual Surgical Simulation Summit and related simulation courses; extending more educational opportunities to surgeons in sub-Saharan Africa via the ѻýsurgical volunteerism initiative, ѻýH.O.P.E.; expanding the popular Surgeons as Educators and Surgeons as Leaders courses; combining the annual ѻýCancer Conference with the ѻýQuality and Safety Conference to ensure the greatest value for attendees; and more.
This pillar of the ѻýStrategic Plan will help surgeons advance their clinical skills by providing the rigorous learning they need to meet their patients’ needs.
Read more:
Introducing the New ѻýStrategic Plan – Executive Director’s Update (July/August 2025 Bulletin)
Pillar 1: Advance Patient-Centered Care and Surgical Quality (August 5 ѻýBrief)
Additional articles addressing the two remaining pillars and foundation of the plan will be published in the coming weeks.