The National Académie of Surgery is a surgical company French.

It was created by Louis XV under the name of royal Académie of surgery on December 18th, 1731. Dissolved with the Revolution, it reappears in 1843 on the initiative of some surgeons (Bérard, Monod, Robert, Michon, Guersant, Vidal, Danyau, Denonvilliers, Malgaigne, Chassaignac, Maisonneuve, Nélaton, Marjolin), under the name of National company of surgery . It takes the name of Académie of chirugie in 1935, then its current name in 1997.

It counts more than 500 members, French and foreigners, pertaining to the various surgical specialities. It is intended to make known progress of the surgery but is also interested in the economic aspects, legal and ethics of the surgical act. The presentations submitted to the platform are followed discussions.

Prices decreed by the Academy

All the prices of the national Academy of surgery are intended for surgeons, except the price of the Academy.

Annual prices

• Price Dentu-Renon: decreed each year with the intern Gold medal in surgery.

• Price Duval-Marjolin: decreed with the author of the best thesis of surgery published in France in the current of the year.
• Price Dubreuil-Laborie: intended to reward a work on a subject for orthopedy.
• Price of the Academy: created in 2000, it is intended to express the interest carried by the national Academy of surgery to any bearing work on another field that the surgery and appearing useful for the surgery or to its exercise.

Biennial prices

• Price Leriche-Chevassu: decreed with an old French surgeon of less than 35 years having shown of original qualities, spirit and research.

• Price Chupin-Hennequin: decreed every two years with the best report new or printed surgical pathology relating more particularly to the affections or wounds observed with the armies.

Triennial prices

• Price Duval-Lenormant: decreed with a French who will have brought to the general surgery the actual profits of a biological or chemical discovery.

• Price of Martel-Forgue: reward either a clinical work, or the development of a new technique, or the invention of an instrument, or the discovery of therapeutic, in a word, any research likely to make progress general surgery or neurosurgery.

Quinquennial price

• international Medal of surgery (Foundation Lannelongue): decreed with a surgeon of any country, which, during the ten last years, will have done the surgical discovery most notorious or the work most useful for the art and the science of the surgery.