Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits
Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.
Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits
Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.
Registration is open to anyone involved in the delivery of simulation-based surgical education, including, but not limited to surgeons, physicians, residents, medical students, educators, simulation center directors and administrators, sim techs, and academic engineers.
The registration fee includes a name badge, program book, two breakfasts, two lunches, coffee breaks, and a networking reception with hors d'oeuvres and drinks. It also includes entrance to all sessions, including workshops, and the exhibit hall. Additionally, attendees will be able to claim CME credit and Patient Safety Credits.
Attendees are not officially registered for the meeting until registration and payment have been received.
Registration Fees and Credentials
Category
Fee
AEI Members
$655
AEI Nonmember
$770
AEI Simulation Education Fellow*
$520
Resident**
$520
Medical Student**
$520
Academic Engineer**
$520
ACS Retired Fellow†
$520
Industry (non-exhibitor)††
$1,710
Attendees must work at an Accredited Education Institute (AEI) at the time of registration to receive the AEI Member rate. Your status will be verified during registration. Review the list of AEIs.
*An AEI Simulation Education Fellow is an individual who is currently enrolled in an ACS-accredited Fellowship Program. Your status will be verified during registration. Review the list of accredited fellowship programs.
**The American College of Surgeons offers discounted registration fees for AEI member and nonmember residents, medical students, and academic engineers.
†A Retired ACS Fellow is an individual who has notified the College, meets the ACS definition of Retired, has been granted Retired status, and is officially listed in the ACS database as Retired. The ACS definition of a Retired member is a surgeon who is not in the active practice of providing surgical or nonsurgical patient care, participating in funded research, or performing compensated teaching or administrative duties. Questions about Retired member status should be directed to dues@facs.org.
††Industry employees who do not want to exhibit but would like to attend educational programming may register at this rate. Industry employees do not qualify for the AEI Nonmember rate and are not eligible to claim CME. In addition, industry employees are prohibited from providing product-promotional materials or product-specific advertisements of any kind during the accredited educational event. Industry employees also cannot influence the content of the CME program in any way, during their attendance at the event.
Cancelation Policy
All meeting participants must notify ACS Registration Services via email at registration@facs.org to cancel their registration. Cancelations must be received by February 13, 2025, and will be assessed at $100 cancelation fee. Credit card refunds will be processed as received; check refunds will be processed 3–4 weeks after the conclusion of the meeting. Attendees who cancel after February 13, 2025, will forfeit all registration fees.
Meeting Attire
Business attire is appropriate for all meeting sessions.
Recordings
This program will be electronically recorded by the ACS-AEI Program. By attendance and/or participation in discussions, registrants agree that ACS may electronically copy, record, and distribute registrants’ attendance at and involvement in the program discussion and question-and-answer periods. No individual or entity other than the ACS may electronically record any portion of this program for any purpose without the consent of ACS.
Photography
Attendance at this meeting constitutes consent to be photographed for use in print and/or electronic publicity. Attendees who do not wish to have their image recorded for distribution should make their wishes known before the meeting.
Registration Questions
Should you have any questions regarding registration, please contact ACS Registration Services at registration@facs.org or 312-202-5244.
