News & Events

Upcoming Events

Save the Date!

The 2012 ACS AEI Postgraduate Course will take place Friday, September 14, and Saturday, September 15, 2012, in New Orleans hosted by the Louisiana State University Health Science Center at New Orleans Learning Center.

Future ACS AEI Consortium Meetings in Chicago, IL

6^th Annual: Friday, March 15 and Saturday, March 16, 2013
7^th Annual: Friday, March 21 and Saturday, March 22, 2014
8^th Annual: Friday, March 20 and Saturday, March 21, 2015

Upcoming Accreditation Review Committee Meetings:

June 26–27, 2012
December 12-13, 2012

Future Committee Meetings:

Each of the committees of the Consortium of ACS-accredited Education Institutes (AEI) will meet twice a year in person on the day prior to the annual Postgraduate Course, and the day prior to the Annual Consortium Meeting. Upcoming meetings will be held on the following dates:

Thursday, September 13, 2012 (New Orleans, LA)
Thursday, March 14, 2013 (Chicago, IL)

News

Congratulations to our newly-accredited institutes! At the December 6-7, 2011 Accreditation Review Committee meeting, the following three institutes were awarded accreditation:

New Level I – Comprehensive Education Institutes

University of Illinois at Chicago Health Sciences Simulation Consortium in Chicago, IL
NorthShore Center for Simulation and Innovation, in Evanston, IL

New Level II – Basic Education Institute

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Educational Institute for Procedural Skills and Simulation, in Iowa City, IA

Please join us in welcoming our newest members of the Consortium of ACS-accredited Education Institutes!

The 4th Annual ACS AEI Postgraduate Course: “Measuring Procedural Competence” took place September 16-17, 2011 in Houston, TX. Hosted by the Methodist Institute for Technology, Innovation, and Education (MITIE), the course was tremendously successful, drawing 113 participants whose reviews of the event have been extremely positive. The course agenda can be found here (210K PDF).

The 4th Annual Meeting of the Consortium of ACS-accredited Education Institutes took place in Chicago on April 29–30, 2011 and was a successful and productive meeting. There were 172 participants in attendance, with 50 of our 61 institutes represented. Reports and summaries from the meeting will follow in our Spring 2011 newsletter.

If you have questions about any news and events, please contact Emily Langerak by email at elangerak@facs.org or by phone at 312-202-5535.

Revised May 2, 2012