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AccessSurgery Custom Curriculum & ACGME Core Competencies
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Custom Curriculum
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AccessSurgerys Custom Curriculum is a cutting-edge functionality that enables program directors to create,
track, and report usage of surgical rotations online. With the Custom Curriculum surgical programs are free
to build a resource that matches their unique needs mapping AccessSurgery content and capabilities to their
educational structure. Download the Custom Curriculum presentation to learn more. Program directors can:
- 1. Create a rotation and topic
- 2. Select related reference content, videos, and animations from AccessSurgery
- 3. Assign board review quizzes; customize the number of questions and set the passing grade
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- 4. Link out to references or other web-based resources
- 5. Schedule grand rounds, lectures, or other offline activities
- 6. Download and save usage reports organized by resident or by rotation
As an alternative to creating rotations from scratch, program directors can choose to modify existing rotations. They can also add their own rotations to the Shared Library for other programs to view and adopt.
For residents, the Custom Curriculum provides a powerful educational tool. When they log on, the residents view the available rotations from their program director, as well as their own individual progress by rotation.
To learn more about implementing the Custom Curriculum at your institution, please contact us.
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Core Curriculum
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AccessSurgery is organized around a Core Curriculum designed for Residents in
General Surgery. An ongoing national effort, the Core Curriculum mandate has
pulled together key surgical organizations in an effort to develop a consistent
general surgery educational framework. Participant organizations include:
ACGME RRC-S (Accreditation Council for Graduate
Medical Education Residency Review Committee for Surgery)
ASE (Association for Surgical Education)
ABS (American Board of Surgery)
ACS (American College of Surgeons)
ASA (American Surgical Association)
APDS (Association of Program Directors in Surgery)
Gerard M. Doherty, MD, Editor-in-Chief of AccessSurgery, serves as the Chair of
the APDS Curriculum Committee. The curriculum adopted by AccessSurgery corresponds
to the current APDS curricular model, which seeks to
define the depth and breadth of knowledge required, and should provide
sufficient detail to allow testing to document mastery. Until a
single national surgery
 curriculum is
completed, AccessSurgery will continue to reflect the most current iteration of
the APDS curriculum.
Core Curriculum Topics on AccessSurgery refer to content that has
been specifically mapped, or assigned, by Dr. Doherty from the text resource to
the corresponding curricular topic. Semantic language tagging is used to
structure the remaining AccessSurgery content, which is not labeled as part of
the core curriculum.
Core Competencies
In addition to fostering the Core Curriculum effort, the ACGME has recently
established six Core Competencies as a way to articulate and
measure the specific goals of medical education in the United States.
AccessSurgery has been specifically developed to help address the second and
third of these six competencies:
Medical Knowledge
Practice-Based Learning and Improvement
AccessSurgery provides the medical knowledge that residents must master to care for patients.
Residents can demonstrate that knowledge through tracked rotations in the custom curriculum and graded board reviews.
In addition, facility with the AccessSurgery website and the CURRENT Consult PDA download provides searchable access to
patient-care information. Residents can extract the information they need and apply that information to clinical practice-based problems.
To learn more about the ACGMEs Core Competencies, please read the recent
supplement to Schwartzs Principles of Surgery (Brunicardi et
al).
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