Accreditation

The American Association for Thoracic Surgery is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians.

The American Association for Thoracic Surgery designates the annual meeting program, a continuing medical education activity, for the following credit hours in Category 1 of the Physician's Recognition Award of the American Medical Association:

	Catheter-Based Approaches to Structural Heart Disease Symposium	up to 3.75 hrs
	New Techniques and Procedures in General Thoracic Surgery Symposium	up to 3.75 hrs
	Developing the Academic Surgeon Symposium	up to 3.75 hrs
	Adult Cardiac Surgery Symposium	up to 7.25 hrs
	Congenital Heart Disease Symposium	up to 7.0 hrs
	General Thoracic Surgery Symposium	up to 7.0 hrs
	C. Walton Lillehei Resident Forum	up to 2.0 hrs
	Plenary and Simultaneous Scientific Sessions	up to 17.5 hrs