2025 Joint Annual Meeting Meeting

North and South Carolina ACS Chapters

July 11-13, 2025

The Omni Grove Park Inn
Asheville, NC

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The Call for Abstracts for the NC/SC Joint 2025 ACS Chapters Meeting is now open. Submissions for General Surgery, Cancer, and Trauma should be submitted online by 11:45 PM ET May 10, 2025. 

SUBMISSION ELIGIBILITY 

• All residents and research trainees enrolled in general surgery or surgical specialty residency training or fellows-in-training programs in North Carolina.
   
• Medical students enrolled in a medical school in North Carolina – with an interest in surgery.
  
• The entry should represent the original work done by the authors. 
   
• Submission of an abstract constitutes a commitment by the submitting author to be present on July 11-13, 2025 in Asheville, NC if his/her abstract is accepted.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

• Submit the abstract using the online submission form by May 10, 2025 at 11:45 pm ET.
   
• Online submissions only.
   
• Upload graphs or charts as directed on the abstract submission form.
   
• When you enter your abstract, you will be asked to complete these sections: 

Abstracts: Background, Objective, Methods, Results, and Conclusion

Case Reports: Introduction/Objective, Case Presentation, Discussion and Conclusion

PAPER COMPETITION

• Trauma – Only submissions directly related to trauma surgery will be considered.  Submissions related to acute care surgery and/or emergency general surgery should be submitted in the General/Specialty Surgery Competition. Only resident and fellows-in-training submissions are eligible to advance to the COT Region IV competition. Military can not submit to the Chapter; must submit to ACS COT Military Region XIII. Deadline is May 10, 2025.
  
• Cancer – The topic must be specific to oncology. Deadline is May 10, 2025.
• General/Specialty Surgery – The topics have been expanded to include general and specialty surgery. Deadline is May 10, 2025.