American College of Surgeons Well-being Survey

The ACS just launched  a national well-being survey focused on workplace processes and advocating for real change. We are asking for your assistance in reaching practicing surgeons from all walks and encouraging participation. 

On Monday, June 3, 75,000 practicing US surgeons were sent individual email invitations with unique survey links.  If you didn’t receive this (or it went to spam) please send a blank email to [email protected] and a link will be sent to you.

As a leader in surgery, you will also receive additional information and resources to spread awareness of this survey in the coming weeks. Your endorsement and support of this survey would be powerful.

Please check your email for your link, take the survey, and encourage your peers and followers to do the same.

The ACS is committed to advocating for surgeons by gathering data to ensure that we understand workplace processes, compensated and non-compensated responsibilities, value congruence, teamwork, and other key workplace processes related to well-being.  Our goal is to affect immediate impactful change by: 

• Increasing understanding of the surgeon workforce.
• Identifying workplace processes that enhance or inhibit surgeon well-being.
• Understanding surgeon clinical and non-clinical workload and compensation.
• Using this data to drive evidence-based advocacy for surgeon workplace well-being.

The survey is anonymous and takes about 10 minutes to complete.

Please join and support the 2024 Well-being Survey.  Help us advocate for you in an unprecedented way.

Learn more about the American College of Surgeons Well-being Program. To get a survey link or for questions: email [email protected]

This survey is part of an IRB-approved research study being done by Dr. Carter Lebares at the University of California, San Francisco, and the American College of Surgeons. We are collecting data on workplace systems and processes that influence surgeon well-being.  Participation is optional. Institutional identifiers will be used to explore the impact of institutional financial structure, governance composition, and type of ownership on surgeon well-being. You can skip questions that you do not want to answer or stop the survey at any time. The survey is anonymous, and no one will be able to link your answers back to you. You will log in using an email address so you can save and return to your answers. Once the survey is completed and submitted, your email and responses will be automatically and permanently separated. Questions? Please contact Carter Lebares, MD, at [email protected]. If you have questions or concerns about your rights as a research participant, you can call the UCSF Institutional Review Board at 415-476-1814.