The International Relations Committee of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) is pleased to announce travel awards for surgeons. These awards provide international surgeons with the opportunity to attend and participate fully in the educational activities of the ACS annual Clinical Congress. They are proposed to specifically assist surgeons who work in community or regional hospitals or clinics in countries other than the United States and Canada, or who are from poorly resourced academic departments of surgery in poorly resourced countries. A new Community Surgeon Travel Award has been donated through the generosity of the Doctors Duremdes family designated for Filipino surgeons. It gives preference to meritorious applications from Iloilo Province, Panay Island, and non-urban Philippine communities. Applicants must be graduates of schools of medicine who have completed their surgical training. Applications will be accepted for processing only when the applicants have been in surgical practice, teaching, or research for a minimum of one year at their intended permanent location, following completion of all formal training. Applicants must show evidence of commitment to high quality surgery, to surgical teaching, and to improving access to surgical care in their community. Preference will be given to applicants who have not already experienced training or surgical fellowships in the U.S. or Canada. Applicants must submit independently prepared letters of recommendation from three of their colleagues. One letter must be from the chair of the department in which they hold a clinical or academic appointment or from a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons residing in their country. Letters of recommendation should be submitted by the persons making the recommendations. Please visit the award's website for more information.