If you have been searching for a way to make a change — big or small — a surgical coach can guide you to clarify your goals, think differently about your work, and keep you accountable.
Through the Academy for Surgical Coaching, you can get equipped with a coach, set goals for improving technical and non-technical skills, and make a plan to achieve these goals. Surgical coaches and surgeons meet face-to-face or through our secure online video platform. Coaches and surgeons can connect from anywhere, and exchange operative videos. Surgical Coaching interactions are kept confidential.
Surgical Coaching includes:
When you decide to partner with a Surgical Coach, you can expect to work with that coach over 3 to 4 months, meeting about once per month for an hour. During a coaching session, your coach will listen to you, help you formulate your goals, and use techniques to help you think creatively about how to meet your goal. For many surgeons, they form a trusting partnership with their coach, and may collaborate with their coach over a number of years.
As they embark on their careers as independent surgeons, fellows who embrace surgical coaching will be well-equipped to deliver high-quality patient care, adapt to the evolving demands of the profession, and continually grow as skilled and compassionate healthcare providers. Surgical coaching presents a valuable opportunity for fellows as they navigate the crucial transition from training to independent practice. Rooted in the principles of adult learning, surgical coaching provides a structured and individualized approach to support ongoing professional development. By engaging in this transformative process, fellows can enhance their surgical performance across all four performance domains: technical skills, cognitive abilities, interpersonal communication, and self-regulation. The coaching process enhances their ability to complete the cycle of performance improvement; set goals, move through action planning, and progress full circle to assess interval improvement and revise the goals. With this experience, they will be ready to step into their surgical career with tools that enable them to guide their performance trajectory proactively and deliberately in all surgical domains.
Everyone is very busy. And schedules are always unpredictable. Surgical coaching should be easy. Easy to schedule, easy to attend, and easy to follow up.
We have an online video sharing and video conferencing platform to allow you to connect with your Surgical Coach from anywhere. Need help with a specific procedure? Share a video of your surgery with your coach and get feedback. Meet your coach over a video conference and share pictures or video with them in real-time.
If you want to meet with your coach face-to-face, we can facilitate that too. The Academy for Surgical Coaching may even have coaches available to meet with you at an upcoming surgical conference or retreat.
The Academy for Surgical Coaching charges a fee to connect with a coach (can utilize CME funds), get scheduling support from our team, and use our online platform. Surgical Coaches also receive an honorarium for their work.
Meet with our Surgical Director to experience a sample coaching session and explore which type of coach would meet your needs. Intro session fee applies to future coaching package. To begin the coach matching process, please contact us.
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The Academy for Surgical Coaching is now offering a Peer Coaching Partnership Program to connect certified coaches with one another for reciprocal coaching practice. This program facilitates reciprocal peer coaching, where matched coaches take turns as coach and coachee to practice and refine skills, share insights, and develop new techniques in a confidential, mutually supportive environment. This practice helps coaches enhance their abilities, and gain self-awareness through hands-on experience and constructive feedback from fellow professionals.
How Our Peer Coaching Partnership Works
Benefits for Certified Surgical Coaches
Program Investment: $100 per coach for four comprehensive peer coaching sessions.
Ready to enhance your coaching practice? Contact the Academy for Surgical Coaching to join our next Peer Coaching Partnership cohort.
ADDITIONAL CME INFORMATION
CME
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 requirements of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program.
Diplomates of the American Board of Surgery
By attending an ACS-accredited activity, you may choose to participate in the automatic transfer of your CME credits to the ABS via the ACCME. The direct automatic transfer applies to all learners who have an American College of Surgeons (ACS) profile, are Diplomates of the ABS, and have provided their ABS ID and date of birth in the ACS MyCME Portal on the Board Certification page.
If you do not already have an American College of Surgeons (ACS) profile (Learner ID), you can create one through the ACS New User Registration Form. This is a free offering for those who have enrolled in an ACS- Accredited educational activity. The ACS ID will grant you access to MyCME where you can track, manage, and send your CME Data to the ABS.
If you need assistance with creating an ACS Learner ID or are not certain if you already have one, please contact Log-In Help.
For more information or to request assistance, contact mycme@facs.org
PROGRAM OBJECTIVES
This performance and quality improvement activity is designed for Surgeons. Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
RELEASE, REVIEW AND TERMINATION DATE
DISCLOSURE INFORMATION
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 (see below for definitions). Please note that first authors were required to collect and submit disclosure information on behalf all other authors/contributors, if applicable.
| Ineligible Company: The ACCME defines an “ineligible company” as any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services used on or consumed by patients. Providers of clinical services directly to patients are NOT included in this definition. |
| Financial Relationships: Relationships in which the individual benefits by receiving a salary, royalty, intellectual property rights, consulting fee, honoraria, ownership interest (e.g., stocks, stock options or other ownership interest, excluding diversified mutual funds), or other financial benefit. Financial benefits are usually associated with roles such as employment, management position, independent contractor (including contracted research), consulting, speaking and teaching, membership on advisory committees or review panels, board membership, and other activities from which remuneration is received, or expected. |
| Conflict of Interest: Circumstances create a conflict of interest when an individual has an opportunity to affect CME content about products or services of an ineligible company with which he/she has a financial relationship. |
The ACCME also requires that ACS manage any reported conflict and eliminate the potential for bias during the educational activity. Any conflicts noted below have been managed to our satisfaction.
The disclosure information is intended to identify any commercial relationships and allow learners to form their own judgments. However, if you perceive a bias during the educational activity, please report it on the evaluation.
Source: ACCME
Disclosure Information
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 relevant financial relationships with any ineligible company held in the last 24 months. All reported conflicts are managed by a designated official to ensure a bias-free presentation. Please note that first authors were required to collect and submit disclosure information on behalf of all other authors/contributors, if applicable.
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