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Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your Â鶹´«Ã½member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your Â鶹´«Ã½colleagues. It's all here.

Become a Member
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 Â鶹´«Ã½member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your Â鶹´«Ã½colleagues. It's all here.

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Surgeon Well-Being

The Â鶹´«Ã½is committed to surgeon well-being and ensuring surgeons can thrive and flourish in healthy environments.

Surgeon Well-Being

Vital for Your Success—and Your Patients

Your well-being affects how engaged you feel with your patients, colleagues, and work. You may feel a lack of professional purpose. Feelings of being unempowered are common. You are not alone. The Â鶹´«Ã½is committed to fostering well-being, resilience, and work-life integration at every stage of your career.

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Statement on Surgeon Well-Being

The Â鶹´«Ã½recognizes the need to foster well-being, resilience, and work-life integration for all surgeons, regardless of their career stage. Fostering the growth of both the surgical expertise and the person as a whole is paramount.

Statement in Support of the FSMB Policy on Physician Illness and Impairment

In light of the projected shortage of surgeons by 2030, well-being implications of the COVID-19 pandemic, and increasing negative drivers and factors affecting surgeon well-being, the Â鶹´«Ã½advocates for pathways for physicians who ask for help before serious events and consequences occur, or physicians who are receptive to help when approached by leadership, peers, colleagues, family, friends, and other support systems.

Contact Us

For more information about Surgeon Well-Being or other listed resources, or to recommend additional resources to add to this site, please contact Kathleen McCann atÌýkmccann@facs.orgÌýor Jenny Mohan atÌýjmohan@facs.org.