![]() The results are released only to program directors. The ABSITE is furnished to program directors as an evaluation instrument to assess residents' progress. The ABS offers annually to general surgery residency programs the In-Training Examination (ABSITE®), a multiple-choice exam designed to measure the progress attained by residents in their knowledge of applied science and management of clinical problems related to surgery.The program director consensus regarding this product is that it works best when questions are done over time (months) rather than just crashing through all the questions right before the ABSITE. The most important thing about this is reading the explanations, which have a lot of good info. You can do questions at random or by topic, timed or by tutor mode. It looks like the ABSITE interface and does clever things like track your progress and compare it to data for your level of training across the country. TrueLearn ABSITE SmartBank: Over the past few years, TrueLearn has become THE databank for ABSITE studying. Surgical Palliative Care, a resident’s guide Surgery: Basic Science and Clinical Evidence- Norton Practical QI: The basics in Quality Improvement ASCRS Textbook of Colon and Rectal Surgery- Steele Current Therapy of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care–Trunkey The SAGES Manual: Laparoscopy and Endoscopy-Soper Sabiston Textbook of Surgery: the Biological Basis of Modern Surgical Practice SCORE :Learning modules, some videos, selected textbooks which switch year-to-year, currently: Also some good podcasts and other content. The direct link is here, and it is also available through the resident portal. UCSF YOUTUBE Video repository, formerly “Surgiwiki”- these are videos of our surgeons performing a variety of laparoscopic procedures. SESAP 16 Complete: Board-type test questions with explanations: Good for listening to in the car for some easy “osmotic studying.” SESAP 15 Audio Companion: A recorded audio-discussion with an expert in each field covering those outlined topics in the ABS curriculum up above. Many textbooks including Zollingers, Schwartz, Maingot’s abdominal operations, Lange Current Surgical Therapy, Surgical and Interventional Ultrasound, ABSITE Slayer. If you have problems setting this up the librarians are lovely and are happy to help - call (415) 476-2336 On the UCSF library website, users can also download a program called“Reload via E-proxy”which will allow access journal articles from sites like PUBMED with the UCSF permission register so you can (often) access full text articles. If you are off-site, database access will require you to sign into your UCSF my-access account. ABSITE KILLER (beware many errors and dated).Īccess hub for full access to journals and databases (Micromedex & Uptodate: ).Efficient case-based review: Clinical Scenarios in Surgery.Basic Textbook: Cameron’s Current Surgical Therapy.In addition, some other resources to consider: There are many study resources provided in some form by UCSF or UCSF Surgery, which are summarized below. This same link also has the curriculum outline for the Vascular Integrated curriculum. ![]() For each topic there will be a link to an outline of what you are expected to know for this topic- you will be prompted to sign into score to view the outline. At the above link click on either the “Excel” or “PDF” spreadsheets. The detailed outline of the topics the ABS wants you to know. EDUCATIONAL INFORMATION AND STUDY RESOURCES:
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