McGraw-Hill Professional Launches Media-Rich, Online Resource for Surgical Education

McGraw-Hill Professional, a leading global provider of information resources for the scientific and medical communities, today announced the release of AccessSurgery, a media-rich resource for surgical education that combines leading McGraw-Hill references with surgical videos and animations.

AccessSurgery is the first online resource for surgeons organized by key topics to reflect the Accreditation College for Graduate Medical Education's (ACGME) mandate for a general surgery core curriculum. AccessSurgery also helps address two of the ACGME's core competencies of medical knowledge and practice-based learning and improvement. With over 1,400 board review questions and answers and the ability to track and report scores, AccessSurgery is ideal for residents studying for the American Board of Surgery In-Training Examination (ABSITE) as well as for practicing surgeons seeking recertification.

Surgeons simply select a core curriculum topic or choose a procedure/operation to find relevant content from more than 12,000 pages of leading McGraw-Hill surgery references, including:

  - Schwartz's Principles of Surgery, 8th Edition
  - CURRENT Surgical Diagnosis & Treatment, 12th Edition
  - Zollinger's Atlas of Surgical Operations, 8th Edition
  - Skandalakis' Surgical Anatomy
  - Surgery Review Illustrated
  - CURRENT Consult Surgery

AccessSurgery complements these surgical references with an integrated library of multimedia instructional materials, such as narrated, chapterized surgical videos from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and surgical animations adapted from Zollinger's Atlas of Surgical Operations, 8th Edition. Surgeons can tailor their searches to find just videos or images, or they can search the full site.

Continuously evolving, AccessSurgery delivers text updates, editor's journal reviews, and video podcasts (vodcasts) that highlight key surgical techniques from the editors of Schwartz's Principles of Surgery, 8th edition. The fully integrated resource also includes a comprehensive drug database updated in real-time, one-click access to related government guidelines, a differential diagnosis tool with over 100 symptoms and diseases, and detailed cancer staging tables. For subscribers and non-subscribers alike, the AccessSurgery blog provides a public forum for keeping abreast of the latest advances in surgery and debating the merits of different surgical approaches.

"AccessSurgery offers a wealth of unparalleled references, animations, and videos that improve surgical skills for residents while providing critical support for program directors in meeting ACGME requirements," said Michael Hays, vice president of McGraw-Hill Professional's Digital group.

  AccessSurgery is guided by a preeminent advisory board:

  - Gerard M. Doherty, M.D., Norman W. Thompson Professor of Surgery and
    Residency Program Director for Surgery, University of Michigan
  - F. Charles Brunicardi, M.D., DeBakey/Bard Professor and Chairman,
    Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine
  - Eric A. Rose, M.D., Morris and Rose Milstein/Johnson & Johnson Professor
    of Surgery and Chairman, Department of Surgery, Columbia University
    College of Physicians and Surgeons

The latest addition to McGraw-Hill Professional's offering of online medical resources, AccessSurgery is the first in a series of specialty-focused sites that build directly upon the success of AccessMedicine, an online service that provides access to numerous world-renowned McGraw-Hill medical references for general practitioners and medical students.

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SOURCE: McGraw-Hill Professional

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