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AccessSurgery: How to Navigate AccessSurgery

Patient Education

The Patient Education handouts  provide:

  • Customizable handouts if you are signed into your MyAccess profile.
  • The handouts are written at an eighth grade reading level and are updated quarterly. 

Multimedia

Behind The Knife is the leading surgical podcast that provides interviews with leading surgeons and top notch surgical education material from ABSITE to Oral Boards to assist listeners in becoming surgeons.

The online Patient Safety Modules will provide you with an introduction to the core concepts of patient safety in an interactive and self-paced learning environment. The current course includes three (3) modules:

 

Scans and imaging modules available to play through, as well as labeled and unlabeled modules organized into:

Quick Reference

This section provides reference information for quick lookup, including:

  • Quick Answers: Surgery
    • A diagnostic index of over 100 symptoms and signs
    • Provides clinical, point-of-care information in an easy-to-read bulleted format
  • ABSITE Quick Review
    • The ultimate preparation tool for the American Board of Surgery In-Training Examination
    • More than 300 multiple-choice questions and more than 1,000 quick-hit single answer questions
    • Test-taking tips
    • Full-color illustrations

Cases

The Cases tab provides materials for short, targeted case-based learning. Cases can be generated from three texts:

Drugs

The Drug Monographs  can be searched, browsed alphabetically, or filtered by generics, trade names, and drug classes. The drug monographs are updated every two weeks.

Clerkship

The Clerkship tab provides clerkship-specific resources, including:

  • Textbook recommendations that are suited for medical students
  • Cases to prepare clerks for surgical situations
  • Q&A created for clerks

Study Tools

The Study Tools tab  provides: 

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