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AccessSurgery: How to search Resources

McGraw Hill COVID-19 Response

Due to the influx of COVID-19 patients overwhelming hospital ICU capacity, many surgery departments are canceling/rescheduling elective surgery procedures to relieve stress on hospital infrastructure, health care workers, and supplies. The American College of Surgeons (ACS) has taken the lead on this and issued directives for hospitals and surgeons to follow: 

https://www.facs.org/covid-19/clinical-guidance/elective-surgery.

As a result of these changes, many surgery residents are taking on different roles at their institutions to support the efforts of emergency, ICU, and anesthesiology departments to treat critically ill COVID-19 patients. To ensure that residents are keeping up with their surgery residency requirements during this challenging time, many will be turning to online resources like AccessSurgery.

To support this effort, we have put together the attached document that maps content on AccessSurgery to most clinical rotations, core surgical subspecialties, and surgery clerkship. 

What Is AccessSurgery?

AccessSurgery from McGraw-Hill Medical introduces a whole new dimension to surgical education and clinical practice. Updated regularly, this comprehensive online surgery resource enhances medical knowledge and delivers quick answers to surgical inquiries – all in one place.

 

Overview Video

Learn more about AccessSurgery in this brief overview of the collection.

CME

CME in AccessSurgery is designed for the practicing physician.

 

To learn more about earning CME credits in AccessSurgery, select the CME Flyer link below or watch a tutorial on the Access User Center at this link.

Content Maps

With our content maps, our digital medical resources are matched with academic curriculum or professional specialty needs for a specific audience (i.e., medical students, advanced practice nursing students, emergency medicine students, practicing clinicians, etc.). 

Explore our dynamic list of content maps on the Access User Center.

Renaming Quizzes

In your MyAccess profile (upper-right sign in, AccessSurgery), under the "My Review Questions" tab, you can select the "Rename" pen tool beside any quiz you wish to rename. This is useful for sharing quiz results. View a tutorial on how to rename quizzes  at this link.

AccessSurgery Intro Video

Searching

You can learn more about the search feature at this link.

Search:

  • In AccessSurgery, you can search for resources across all content types
  • Auto-suggest appears as you type (can be disabled)
  • You can "phrase search" using quotations
  • Get the same search results by combining terms together or by using AND
    • e.g., lung transplantation = lung AND transplantation

Search Builder:

To the left of your search results, search builder allows you to:

  • Focus the search by modifying your terms (keyword, title, author, ISBN)
  • Filter results by format (chapter, tables, cases, images, multimedia, etc.)
  • Select textbooks to see results by specific titles 
  • Narrow results by topics

Federated Search:

A federated search expands your results from AccessSurgery to include results from other McGraw Hill Access Medical sites. 

  • Use the dropdown menu to the left of the search bar to select federated search
  • Search builder elements above apply
  • Green dot indicates the item is available in your subscription 

Hypothes.is

Hypothes.is is a free platform annotation tool in AccessSurgery. To learn more, select the PDF guide link below or watch a tutorial on the Access User Center at this link. 

MyAccess Profile

To engage with AccessSurgery and its content and resources, users need to create a free MyAccess profile (upper-right sign in dropdown menu) in AccessSurgery. Users are encouraged to login each time they use the site.

  • Create a MyAccess Profile: To learn more about how to create a free MyAccess profile, select the PDF link below or visit the Access User Center at this link
  • Reset Your Password: To learn how to reset your MyAccess profile password, watch this tutorial on the Access User Center

Usage Reports

For more information on how to pull usage statistics for your institution, please visit our page on the Access User Center at this link.

Linking to Content

Instructors can link to content in AccessSurgery through their LMS using the durable URLs found in the browser of all text and chapter content, multimedia, cases, study tools, and clerkship content. For a tutorial on how to link to content in AccessSurgery via durable URLs, please visit the Access User Center at this link.

Training

Webinar Series

  • General Overview Webinars:
    • Sign up to attend an upcoming webinar. The session provides an overview of site features and available content.
  • Archived Webinars:
    • Browse our list of past webinars and register to view a recorded session. 
  • To request live custom training for your institution, email Customer Success at CustomerSuccess@mheducation.com

Source: https://mheducation.libguides.com/accesssurgery