LHL Resource of the Month

AccessSurgery: October Resource of the Month

AccessSurgery is an integrated, online surgical education resource that puts content into context.  It has resources on core topics like:

• acute care surgery
• endocrine surgery
• surgical oncology
• cardiothoracic surgery
• orthopedics
• neurosurgery
• gastrointestinal surgery
• vascular surgery
• head & neck
• urology
• gynecology
• plastic & reconstructive surgery
• pediatric surgery
• transplantation

Components of AccessSurgery include:

• videos & animations of basic skills and procedures & operations like
  • airway management
  • patient assessment
  • wound healing
  • patient & equipment safety
• textbooks such as
  • Schwartz’s Principles of Surgery and Schwartz’s Principles of Surgery: Self-Assessment and Board Review
  • Trauma
  • Maingot’s Abdominal Operations
  • Obesity Surgery: Principles and Practice
  • Principles of Critical Care
  • Skandalakis’ Surgical Anatomy
  • Zollinger’s Atlas of Surgical Operations
• board review test materials
• drug information
• differential diagnosis information

You can also customize your curriculum with AccessSurgery, organized around the ACGME’s mandate for a general surgery.  See a demo of AccessSurgery here.

Each month, the AccessSurgery Blog highlights updates to content and features and also “provides a forum for surgical residents and practicing surgeons to debate and share information on the latest advances in the field.”

Get to AccessSurgery via the “Databases & Resources” page.

*Please note: Remote access requires a UAB Blazer ID and password.

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