Curriculum Outline

The SCORE Curriculum Outline is a list of patient care and medical knowledge topics to be included in a curriculum for a five-year general surgery residency training program. The outline was originally created in 2008 and is revised annually with input from SCORE member organizations and specialty surgical organizations. It has been approved by SCORE as the basis for a full surgical residency curriculum.

The patient care outline consists of 28 organ system-based categories containing a total of 719 topics. Each category is separated into diseases/conditions (broad and focused) and operations/procedures (essential-common, essential-uncommon, and complex). The medical knowledge section contains 13 categories and 79 topics. 

The SCORE Curriculum Outline for 2011-2012 is now available in PDF and Excel versions—see links below. Copies of the outline will be mailed to ACGME-accredited general surgery residency programs and SCORE portal subscribers.

The Excel version includes a tab with all changes for this year's edition noted. In patient care, 11 modules have been added, six removed and 15 renamed. Additionally, 35 have had their module level changed (i.e., broad, focused, essential-common, essential-uncommon or complex). In medical knowledge, three modules have been renamed and one module (principles of antimicrobial resistance) added.

The outline will continue to be reviewed each year for relevancy and revised as necessary.

2011-2012 SCORE Curriculum Outline - PDF version

2011-2012 SCORE Curriculum Outline - Excel version 

Posted: Aug. 2011

SCORE is a nonprofit consortium of the following U.S. surgical organizations with the mission of improving education in general surgery and its related specialties and subspecialties: