Resources for Chapters

The Chapter Guidebook is an important resource for chapter leaders to effectively manage their chapters and successfully fulfill their mandates.

Chapter leadership sessions provide chapter leaders with the tools they need to succeed as leaders and to further the impact of their chapters.

ACS Chapters can opt-in to have the ACS invoice Fellows for their primary chapter dues and ACS dues simultaneously for 2024–2025. Our successful pilot for 2023–2024 has seen increases in chapter dues collected for the four pilot chapters.

Hosting a Surgical Jeopardy game at your chapter meeting will help get residents involved in ACS activities and expose them to an exciting method of testing their surgical knowledge.

Host an interactive surgical skills competition for residents at your next chapter meeting. The toolkit is a great resource designed to mimic common surgical situations.

ACS chapters in the US are strongly encouraged to establish an advocacy and health policy abstract competition for residents and surgical trainees.

Funding is available to US-based chapters to support state-level advocacy efforts.

This program allows international chapters or other eligible organizations to create a local educational course that includes faculty from the ACS.

This program allows donors and potential donors to designate financial gifts to an ACS Chapter of their choosing through the ACS Foundation.

ACS offers leadership programming for domestic and international chapter leaders throughout the year.