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SAGES University – Now Open!
December 29, 2012
The American Board of Surgery (ABS) requires 90 hours of Category 1 CME Credits every three years for Maintenance of Certification (MOC). The ABS stipulates: “MOC Part 2 requires the completion of 90 hours of Category I CME over a three-year MOC cycle. All CME must be relevant to the diplomate’s practice, or if clinically [...]
SAGES Job Board
December 28, 2012
The SAGES Job Board, featuring listings for surgeons and allied health. Completely free for both recruiters and job seekers.
SCORE
December 27, 2012
SAGES is a member of the Surgical Council on Resident Education (SCORE), a nonprofit consortium formed in 2006 by the principal organizations involved in U.S. surgical education. SCORE’s mission is to improve the education of residents in general surgery and its related specialties and sub-specialties. Learn more at www.surgicalcore.org
The SAGES Manuals: Handbooks for Endoscopic and Laparoscopic Surgery
December 26, 2012
The SAGES Manuals are portable, concise, beautifully illustrated manuals from the world’s pioneering Society of minimally invasive surgery. These books provide an authoritative synopsis of the major laparoscopic and endoscopic procedures in easy-to-use, outline form. Each of the SAGES Manuals are available for ordering from the Springer web site. For more information visit “The SAGES [...]
Download the SAGES 2013 Meeting App
October 27, 2012
The SAGES 2013 Meeting App is now available for immediate download from the Apple App Store, the Google Play Store and as a native Kindle Fire App. The SAGES app is vastly improved from the 2012 version. You spoke and we listened. Some of the new features are: Browse the Program by Day/Time, Course Type [...]
Message from the President, October 2012
October 27, 2012
We all realize that technology changes the way that we take care of patients, and subsequently our primary goal is to supply patients with the access, and the ability, to have outstanding care in all areas.
On the Road With Sherry Wren, MD
October 12, 2012
It’s Sunday night in Zimbabwe and we just finished two weeks of teaching Trauma and Basic Laparoscopy as part of the educational collaborative we have with the Department of Surgery at the College of Health Sciences at the University of Zimbabwe. The first week we taught spent principles of advanced trauma care to their general [...]
ACS and SAGES Recommend FLS Certification for General Surgeons Who Perform Laparoscopy
March 9, 2012
The Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) and the American College of Surgeons (ACS) today announced the recommendation that all surgeons practicing laparoscopic surgery be certified through The Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery™ Program (FLS). Read the full press release…
