ACAPS Winter Retreat
Improving Education in Global Health
February 22-23, 2020
Omni Austin Downtown
Austin, Texas
  

ACAPS Spring Meeting
May 2-4, 2020
Palmer House
Chicago, Illinois

Come and share the advantages of the ASPS Educational Network with Plastic Surgery training programs across the United States. The ACAPS Global Health Committee, in association with the ASPS is pleased to offer a one-year subscription to the ASPS Education Network to a surgical trainee or training program from a resource poor area. Applicants for the Scholarship will be selected by the ACAPS Global Health Committee and approved by the ASPS Editorial Board. Applicants must be actively enrolled in a surgical training program that includes clinical plastic surgery in a low or middle-income country.

The ACAPS Global Health Committee is in its second year of sponsoring a scholarship opportunity for an educational exchange at an international site. This program will support travel-related expenses for a U.S faculty member and plastic surgery resident or fellow to visit an international training program. The overarching goal of this short trip is to disseminate and implement aspects of the US graduate medical education paradigm.

The American Council of Academic Plastic Surgeons (ACAPS) is excited to offer ten (10) competitive scholarships to attend the ACAPS 2020 Winter Retreat. The theme of our retreat is "Global Health Education" and we are seeking to bring applicants early in their plastic surgical training who have a strong interest in education and its impact on global health. Applicants should be medical students or residents in their first four years (PGY 1-4) of an integrated program or the first two years (PGY 1-2) of an independent program.

The American Council of Academic Plastic Surgeons (ACAPS) is composed of the program directors / chairpersons and associates of American College of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) approved plastic surgery residency programs in the United States. Its goal is to provide leadership and support for educational programs for plastic surgery residents. The curriculum for resident educational programs in the US has been derived from the efforts of members of this association.

ASPS has developed a free listing service to simplify the listing and search for all types of fellowship and training opportunities within the specialty. The goal of this initiative is to provide plastic surgeons and plastic-surgeons-in-training with a searchable database of plastic surgery fellowships, observerships and internships/externship available in the United States and throughout the world.

You are invited to post your fellowships, internships and other post-graduate plastic surgery training opportunities in the new Plastic Surgery Fellowship and Training Opportunities Directory.

ASPS believes this directory will help publicize existing opportunities and provide a broad ranging listing for residents and all plastic surgeons who are seeking additional training. The listings are free to post and free to search for everyone. The directory will be searchable by sub-specialty, duration, country and/or region, paid or unpaid, and more. The Plastic Surgery Fellowship and Training Opportunities Directory is open to private plastic surgeons, institutions, and training directors to post their short and long-term training options.