About AccessSurgery

AccessSurgery^TM from McGraw-Hill is an integrated online resource that provides medical students, surgical residents, and practicing surgeons with quick answers to surgical inquiries from trusted sources. Organized around the accepted ACGME's (Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education) Core Curriculum, AccessSurgery delivers content in context.

In addition to the resources we provide to residency programs, AccessSurgery offers a Clerkship Corner, which is designed to provide clerks with text resources, case scenarios, and question and answers for their surgery rotation. In the Clerkship Corner, content is organized both by Core Topics as well as by Organ Systems.

The Core Topics resources on the homepage as well as the Core Topics and Organ System resources on the Clerkship Corner are selected by Gerard Doherty, MD, who serves both as Editor-in-Chief of AccessSurgery as well as Chair of APDS (Association of Program Directors in Surgery), one of the organizing bodies that created the accepted ACGME Core Curriculum.

With AccessSurgery, program directors or clerkship directors can build a custom curriculum:

• Create rotations online
• Select resources, videos, and animations from AccessSurgery
• Assign board review, selecting the number of questions and the passing grade
• Link out to external web resources
• Track, report, and download resident or clerk usage by individual or rotation

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In addition to providing unparalleled, integrated content, AccessSurgery offers a range of special features designed to both assist resident and clerk education and support surgical practice.

• Take a Board Review test from Surgery Review Illustrated and Schwartz's Principles of Surgery: Self-Assessment and Board Review, 8th Edition, then email the results.
• Look up a symptom or disease in our Differential Diagnosis (DDx) tool.
• Discover related Government Guidelines by clicking a pre-populated search box.
• Launch a Customized Search for just videos, just images, or view full-site results.
• Integrated drug database providing critical information on medication indications, dosages, contraindications, and drug classes.
• Access to clerk-level information to review cases or questions and answers.

Through the ability to report self-assessment results, AccessSurgery also helps surgical programs address two of the ACGME Core Competencies—medical knowledge and practice-based learning and improvement.

Nearly every month, new surgical videos from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, videos created for our major textbooks, or animations based on Zollinger’s Atlas of Abdominal Operations, 9e are posted to the site. These
high-quality, narrated operations are chapterized to enable quick access to the most relevant section of the surgery. Or watch an entire operation, skin-to-skin, for information about port placement, incisions, and closings, as well as the nuances of the operation itself.

The editorial team of Schwartz's Principles of Surgery provides monthly Text Updates on key topics. Spearheaded by Dr. Seymour Schwartz, founding editor, the Editor's Journal Review offers original analyses of recent journal articles. The International Advisory Board to Schwartz’s Principles of Surgery also contributes journal reviews with a global perspective.

AccessSurgery is guided by a preeminent Advisory Board.

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