ACS-MacLean Center Surgical Ethics Fellowship

The American College of Surgeons (ACS)-MacLean Center Fellowship explores ethical issues that arise in the practice of modern surgery. Sponsored by the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics and the Department of Surgery at the University of Chicago, the program is designed for surgical residents, fellows, or attending surgeons from outside the University of Chicago who are interested in gaining training and experience in surgical ethics. The fellowship builds on the MacLean Center's successful clinical medical ethics fellowship program with the goal of preparing surgeons for careers that combine clinical surgery with scholarly studies in surgical ethics. The program begins with a four-to-five-week full-time Summer Intensive introduction in July-August, followed by a structured ethics curriculum from September to June where fellows meet one day a week on Wednesdays. The curriculum includes Topics in Clinical Ethics, Law and Ethics, Introduction to Moral Philosophy, Surgical Ethics, and Research-in-Progress seminars. Fellows participate and are supervised in an Ethics Consultation service, and working with faculty mentors in surgery, each fellow designs and carries out a research project. Partial support for travel costs during the year of fellowship training is available.