SCORE News

Visit SCORE Booth at the 2008 ACS Clinical Congress

SCORE will be demonstrating its general surgery curriculum website/resident portal at the American College of Surgeons' Clinical Congress, Oct. 13 to 15 in San Francisco. Visit SCORE at booth #1107 in the "ACS Sponsored Projects" area, just inside the entrance to the main exhibit hall.

Website Beta Test Planned for October 2008

A beta test (pilot) of the SCORE curriculum website/resident portal is currently scheduled to begin in October 2008. The beta test is intended to be a short-term evaluation of the website's structure, usability, and feasibility as relates to general surgery training prior to its full release in July 2009. Thirty-three general surgery residency programs will be participating.  Learn more

SCORE Supports Development of Operative Performance Rating System

At a July 2008 meeting, the member organizations of SCORE agreed to support an operative performance rating system currently in development by the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. This project seeks to establish "gold standards" for the performance of common procedures in general surgery to which individual resident performance could be compared. Once it is completed, SCORE intends to integrate the system into its new curriculum as a tool for resident assessment.

Patient Care Curriculum Outline Published

SCORE published in April 2008 a Patient Care Curriculum Outline—a listing of patient care topics to be included in a curriculum for a five-year general surgical residency training program. It also specifies in general terms the depth and breadth of training that is expected for each topic. This outline has been approved by SCORE and the American Board of Surgery as the basis for a full patient care curriculum.

The Surgical Council on Resident Education (SCORE) is a voluntary consortium of the following organizations involved in U.S. surgical education: