The Resident Portal

As part of the curriculum effort, SCORE has developed a website to provide educational content aligned with the SCORE curriculum to all general surgery residents. The General Surgery Resident Curriculum Portal provides residents with easy access to high-quality educational materials while also facilitating program instruction and resident self-study.

The portal features modules covering approximately 300 patient care and medical knowledge topics, with more to come.

Portal homepage where residents can quickly access modules and other resources,
as well as view assignments and program announcements

Modules contain:

Learning Objectives

Written by APDS members, with direct links to related resources

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.

Resources:

Text resources (e.g., textbook chapters, articles, practice guidelines, procedure
     outlines)

Operative videos

Example of a patient care module

Self-assessment quizzes on basic science and clinical management will also be posted periodically, using multiple-choice questions from the American Board of Surgery. In addition, modules related to systems-based practice created by MDContent are available to PGY-3, PGY-4 and PGY-5 residents.

The portal's content includes excerpts from major surgical texts, such as ACS Surgery: Principles & Practice, Greenfield's Surgery: Scientific Principles & Practice, Fischer's Mastery of Surgery and Cameron's Atlas of Gastrointestinal Surgery, with more to come. It also includes access to the ACS Surgery Weekly Curriculum, Evidence Based Reviews in Surgery, and the STATdx® library of radiologic and anatomical images. All materials are reviewed and selected by members of the ABS and APDS.

By consolidating educational resources into one national website, SCORE aims to reduce variability in general surgery residency curricula and provide residents with a structured program for self-directed learning at all stages of training. Residents will be able to access the web-based content at home or at 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 that are not heavily emphasized in their current curriculum (due to lack
      of faculty expertise, cases, patient populations)

build their own self-study/learning plan

study for the ABSITE and their board exams

Programs will be able to:

customize the portal's homepage with program news and announcements

assign residents 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 large
      or small group teaching sessions

create rotation-based curricula incorporating SCORE portal resources

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