The SCORE Portal                                                              Brochure

SCORE has created the General Surgery Resident Curriculum Portal to provide high-quality educational content aligned with the SCORE curriculum to general surgery residents and residency programs.

The portal contains modules on 400+ patient care and medical knowledge topics, with 120 more coming soon. It also includes access to:

Material from leading surgical textbooks:

ACS Surgery: Principles and Practice

Atlas of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Greenfield's Surgery: Scientific Principles and Practice

Mastery of Surgery

The Physiologic Basis of Surgery

Surgery: Basic Science and Clinical Evidence

Surgical Pitfalls: Prevention and Management

The SAGES Manual: Fundamentals of Laparoscopy, Thorascopy and GI
    Endoscopy

The ASCRS Textbook of Colon and Rectal Surgery

Hundreds of radiological and anatomical images from StatDx®

ACS Surgery Weekly Curriculum - weekly clinical cases and multiple-choice
    questions to assess subject knowledge

Evidence Based Reviews in Surgery - an online journal club

30 modules from MDContent on systems-based practice

Narrated operative videos

Open-ended and multiple-choice questions for resident self-assessment

All in one, easy-to-use website - no additional logins required.

Portal homepage where residents can quickly access resources

Each patient care and medical knowledge module contains:

 Learning Objectives

Written by APDS members with direct links to related resources, including

radiologic and anatomic images with diagnoses and expert differential diagnoses, imaging findings and more.

Study Questions

Open-ended questions to allow residents to assess their understanding
    of the topic. Faculty can also use these as the basis for assignments
    and discussion.

Text Resources and Videos

Textbook chapters, articles, practice guidelines, procedure guidelines,
    and operative videos. Textbook chapters and videos can also be
    accessed directly from the homepage without entering a module.

Residents can mark modules as started or complete and track their progress using the My Progress link on the home page. Program administrators and faculty can also view reports on residents' progress by category, module, PGY level or resident.

Example of a patient care module

More than 1500 multiple-choice questions are available to help residents assess their knowledge by subject area. Users can also create custom quizzes to test their knowledge across several areas. Once a response is given, the questions' correct and incorrect answers are indicated along with explanations and references. 

A list of patient care modules by suggested PGY level is also available to assist faculty. All portal content is reviewed and selected by representatives of SCORE, with more modules, materials and questions continuing to be added.

By consolidating educational resources into one national website, SCORE aims to reduce variability in residency curricula and provide residents with a structured program for self-directed learning at all stages of training. Residents can access the content at home or the hospital, for in-depth study or "just-in-time" learning.

Residents will be able to use the portal to:

prepare for cases

prepare for weekly conferences and other events

learn about topics not heavily emphasized in their current curriculum

build their own self-study/learning plan

study for exams

Programs will be able to:

customize the portal's homepage with program news and announcements

assign modules in preparation for weekly conferences or other events

incorporate videos and radiologic images from the website into presentations
     and face-to-face teaching

use the open-ended assessment questions as the basis for discussion in
     group teaching sessions

create rotation-based curricula incorporating SCORE portal resources

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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: