Become a Surgical Coach

What Does A Surgical Coach Do?

Surgical Coaches unlock a surgeon’s potential to maximize their own performance. They help them to learn rather than teaching them. Coaches provide objective and constructive feedback to help someone recognize what works, what can be improved, and inspire them to maximize their potential.

As a Surgical Coach, you will meet with other surgeons face-to-face or online, help them to improve their own performance using Surgical Coaching techniques. You meet at times that are convenient for you, and our administrative support staff can help coordinate scheduling these coaching visits.

Why Become A Surgical Coach?

If you want to help other surgeons, there is a new option: becoming a Surgical Coach. Surgical Coaching provides the unique opportunity to form relationships with surgeons in your field from other institutions. While guiding your colleagues to improve their practice, you can also be improving your own practice. Many Surgical Coaches also receive coaching from their peers.

All Surgical Coach training course participants earn a Certificate of Surgical Coaching and are eligible to coach surgeons through the Academy. The Academy for Surgical Coaching is committed to compensating every Surgical Coach for their work, whether through financial payments, continuing education credits, or other types of credits for your service to the profession.

Surgical Coach Training

Over 10 years, we have developed a curriculum to train surgeons in the key principles of coaching. Our Surgical Coaching curriculum has been tested in multi-center clinical trials and has been shown to be an effective way to catalyze change. In the one-day Surgical Coach training course, you will learn the key principles of surgical coaching, and have many opportunities to practice and get feedback on your new coaching skills.

Continuing Medical Education Credit Information

Accreditation

Award of CME credits by ACS is based on compliance of the program with the ACCME accreditation requirements and does not imply endorsement by ACS of the content, the faculty, or the sponsor of the program.

 Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME  of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program.

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

The American College of Surgeons designates this Live activity (surgical coach training) for a maximum of 5.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

The information below is required for learners to transmit data to the ABS:

• If learners would like to transmit their CME data from the Academy for Surgical Coaching: Surgical Coach Training Course to the American Board of Surgery they must provide their American College of Surgeons ID when completing their evaluation. If learners do not already have an ACS learner ID they can create one through the MyCME Portal. This is a free offering for both members and nonmembers who have enrolled in an ACS educational activity such as the Academy for Surgical Coaching: Surgical Coach Training Course. If learners need assistance with their ACS ID please direct them to contact Log-In Help.
• Please note that CME data is not automatically transferred to the ABS and learners must follow instructions on this page (https://www.facs.org/for-medical-professionals/education/tools-and-platforms/mycme/)  in order to transmit data to the ABS after the attendance list(s) have been uploaded.

Funding for the original development of this project was provided by the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health and Department of Surgery from the Wisconsin Partnership Program.