Connecticut Chapter of the American College
of Surgeons Professional Association

2026 Annual and Scientific Meeting
Friday - 30 October - 2026 - Trumbull, CT

Please complete this form and click submit at the bottom to receive your CME Certificate. This site will close on 30 November 2026.  

CME

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 participating in an ACS-accredited activity, you may choose to participate in the automatic transfer of your CME credits to the ABS via the ACCME if you are a Diplomate of the American Board of Surgery (ABS). This is a free service.

Opt in to Automatically Send your CME Data to the ABS

The direct automatic transfer applies to all learners who have an 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.

Step-by-Step Instructions to Access MyCME and Opt in to Transmit Your CME Data

1. Log in to your MyCME Portal
2. Select the Board Certification tab
3. Enter the American Board of Surgery
4. Enter your ABS ID
5. Enter your Day and Month of birth
6. Next go to the Send CME Data tab
7. Toggle to Opt In (green) “Yes! I choose to opt in and permit the ACS to automatically transfer all my ACS-accredited CME data to my chosen specialty board earned March 1, 2021, and forward.”

Please note if you have previously successfully transmitted your ACS-accredited CME credits to the ABS via ACCME, then you can skip steps 2–6, and go directly to the Send CME Data tab, and Toggle to Opt In (green).

Once you have opted to automatically transfer your CME credits to the ABS, please allow 24 hours for the credit to appear in your ABS CME Repository.

You may opt out at any time.

For more information or to request assistance, contact mycme@facs.org

Meeting Learning Objectives:

This activity is designed for physicians. Upon completion of this course, learners will be able to:

• Describe the ACS’s mission, structure, and member benefits, including resources for medical students, residents, and practicing surgeons.
• Identify ACS tools and programs that support surgical quality, education, and professional development, such as the Quality Programs, the Surgical Quality Partner mark, and the member app.
• Explain how surgeons can take part in advocacy through SurgeonsVoice and SurgeonsPAC to influence policy that affects surgical practice and patient care.
• Differentiate hospital capacity from hospital functionality when assessing surgical and critical care services in a conflict-affected health system.
• Identify environmental factors that contribute to patient morbidity and mortality in surgical and critical care in the Gaza Strip.
• Describe the nonlinear transition from active conflict to the post-war era and its implications for restoring surgical and critical care services.
• Apply clinical lessons and future directions from the Gaza Strip to surgical and critical care delivery in austere and resource-limited settings.
• Define safety, trust, and excellence as distinct parts of a surgical team’s culture. Explain the evidence that psychological safety comes before trust and, together with trust, increases job satisfaction.
• Apply the Gap and Gain self-assessment to an outcome or complication instead of perfectionist judgment. The assessment asks for three things that went well, three things to improve, and the next best step.
• Recognize the four stress responses (fight, flight, freeze, and fawn) in challenging colleagues and in your own leadership reactions. Use the fact–thought–emotion–action model to find the underlying stressor.
• Identify how core surgeon strengths can become liabilities in team leadership. These strengths are ownership, capability, emotional suppression, and efficiency. Describe at least two strategies for building a non-punitive culture of assessment and shared ownership.
• Discuss the trajectory for surgical trainee wellness in Connecticut.
• Distinguish own-occupation from other disability insurance definitions and identify the policy provisions that determine a surgeon’s coverage.
• Apply cash flow strategies suited to a surgeon’s earning curve that support early investing and retirement readiness while limiting lifestyle creep.
• Explain the fundamentals of how U.S. income taxes work.
• Describe the current federal student loan repayment options and recent changes to them.