The Call for Content opens in May 2025
The American College of Surgeons (ACS) Division of Education invites academic and industry engineers, scientists, surgeons, and surgical educators to submit content proposals for the 2026 Annual ACS Surgeons and Engineers Meeting on March 10–11 in Chicago, IL. This meeting will serve as a venue for surgeons, surgical educators, engineers, and scientists to continue the dialogue between the simulation-based surgical education and engineering communities.
The call for content submission for the 2026 Surgeons and Engineers Meeting will open in May 2025. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the ACS Surgeons and Engineers Committee, and acceptance will be determined based on content, relevance, and encouragement of collaboration. All accepted submissions will be notified by Monday, September 1, 2025.
Listed below, you will find content submission session types. Content Submission Guidelines are presented at the bottom of the page.
Content Submission Session Types
- Workshop (3 hours): This session type should be designed to maximize interactivity with session attendees and focus on practical application. Maximum of 20 attendees.
- Panel Session (60 minutes): This session type should be designed to provoke conversation around hot topics relevant to the surgical simulation community.
- Debate Session (60 minutes): This session type should highlight areas in surgical education with potentially opposing views or approaches. The debate needs to have a moderator and two speakers.
Content Submission Guidelines
- Submissions must include a session title, presenters, learning objectives, and a session description.
- No travel support or waived/discounted registration is offered for presenters of accepted sessions.
- The presenters of the accepted session must attend the meeting to present their session. No virtual presentation option will be offered.
- Upon notification of acceptance, presenters must complete their registration for the meeting before January 14, 2026, or their session is removed from the program.
- Meeting registration will be opened in the late fall of 2025.
Please contact Gyusung Lee, PhD, at glee@facs.org or 312-202-5782 with any questions regarding the Surgeons and Engineers: A Dialogue on Surgical Simulation Call for Abstracts and meeting.
