2025 TSDA General Sessions

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Spring 2025 TSDA General Session
Thursday, May 1, 2025,
Seattle, WA

Agenda

3:00-3:15           Welcome & State of CT Surgery Education

3:15-3:19           TSDA In-Training Exam Committee Report

3:19-3:25           Direct-the-Director Program

3:25-3:40          ABTS Report

3:40-3:55           Entrustable Professional Activities(EPA) Update                                    

3:55-4:10          ACGME Report

4:10-4:40           Panel Discussion: Holistic Application Review – No Grades, No Scores, Executive

Orders, No Problem!

4:40-4:50          Universal Offer Date Task Force Report

4:50-5:00           Break:  Meet Your Mentor

(Only TSDA Voting Members may attend the Business Meeting; Everyone else is excused)

TSDA Business Meeting (TSDA Voting Members Only)

5:00-5:05           Call to Order

5:05-5:15          Universal Offer Date (action item)

5:15-5:20           Approval of Proposed Revisions to the TSDA Bylaws (action item)

5:20-5:25           Committee Chair Introductions and Service Recognition

5:25-5:30           Nominating Committee Member Election (action item)

5:30-5:40           Nominating Committee Report: TSDA Officer Elections (action item)

5:40-5:50           Other Business

5:50-6:00           Closing Remarks

6:00                    Adjourn

Written Reports:
• TSDA Treasurers Presentation and Report (Jonathan Nesbitt, Secretary/Treasurer)  
• Faculty Development Committee (Sara Pereira, Chair)     

TSDA General Session
January 23, 2025
Los Angeles, CA

Agenda

Welcome & Remarks

Benson R. Wilcox Resident Award

New TSDA Spending Policy

TSDA In-Training Exam

STS Report
• New Robotic Surgery Curriculum
• New Advanced Congenital Curriculum
• Question & Answer

ABTS Report
• PULSE 360 Program, Larry Harmon, President, Pulse 360 Program
• Question & Answer

ACGME Report
• Review Committee Update
• Question & Answer

Discussion:
• CentralApp (Alternative to ERAS) for Independent Programs

New Business

Adjourn

Written Reports:
• TSDA Treasurers Report (Jonathan Nesbitt, Secretary/Treasurer)
• Early Specialization Committee (Ahmet Kilic, Chair)
• Faculty Development Committee (Sara Pereira, Chair)
• Congenital Cardiac Surgery Fellowship (Richard Mainwaring, Chair)
• TECoG (Kirsten Freeman, Chair)
• Program Coordinators Committee (Carolyn Grissom, Chair)
• 2024 STS/TSRA Traveling Fellowship (Sarah A. Chen)

Presentations and related information and reports will be posted on the General Session page of TSDA.org.