Lower Extremity Anatomy
Femoral triangle
- Boundaries of the femoral triangle
- Contents of the femoral triangle
Source
Gray’s Anatomy for Students: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access .
Gray’s Anatomy: The Anatomical Basis of Clinical Practice, Expert Consult – Online and Print .
USMLE Step 2 CK BOOKS
First Aid for the USMLE Step 2 CK
USMLE Step 2 Secrets
Crush Step 2: The Ultimate USMLE Step 2 Review
Kaplan Medical USMLE Step 2 CK Qbook
Deja Review USMLE Step 2 CK
Step-Up to USMLE Step 2
Kaplan Usmle Step 2 Ck Lecture Notes
NMS Review for USMLE Step 2 CK
First Aid Cases for the USMLE Step 2 CK
USMLE Step 2 Recall
Lange Q&A USMLE Step 2 CK
USMLE Step 2 CK Books
Pediatrics Resources
A playlist of baby reflexes on youtube that some may find helpful.
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F10D41AB9DC9AAFA
Embrology Resources
http://www.embryology.ch/indexen.html
http://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/Movies/git/gitrot.htm
The movie moves fast, so I encourage you to pause it frequently and to do the rotation
for yourself with your computer cord or a piece of string.
OSCE Exam
Observed Structured Clinical Exams (OSCE)
During the OSCE, students will be expected to be able to demonstrate all of the PE manuevers that are on the adult PE checklist. You will not be given the checklists ahead of time. Rather students are expected to know what portions of the PE to perform given the chief complaint or patient situation.
Remember that the appropriate PE may not fall neatly just into one system. Someone in
whom you have concerns for congestive heart failure would require as part of
their “cardiac” exam, the cardiac exam, lung exam to check for pulmonary edema,
abdominal exam to check for liver enlargement, and an extremity exam to check for
edema. It all depends on your differential and what information you need to collect to
figure out the diagnosis.
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Here is some information to help address questions that generally come up regarding
the purpose and details of the OSCE.
What is the purpose of the OSCE?
The OSCE is the final exam on the subject of clinical skills. Its purpose is to assure that all
students are clerkship ready in basic interviewing and physical exam skills. It is an opportunity for medical schools to identify and help those who may need additional preparation prior to starting the clerkships. It is also a learning experience to help you consolidate your skills. All students must pass the OSCE in order to start their clerkships.
What happens at the OSCE?
Each student will be assigned to a half day for the OSCE. (more or less). During that time, students will rotate through +/- 6 different examination stations. All stations are about 35
minutes in length with 20 minutes for the patient interaction, 8 minutes for a written exercise, and 7 minutes for feedback. There will be a combination of standardized and real patients, and some of them will have physical exam findings.
The stations represent patients with chief complaints and fall into 3 types:
1. Communication Skills stations (similar to your FPC small group exercises)
2. Physical Exam Skills stations
3. Focused History and Physical Exam stations
The written exercises vary from station to station, are designed to assess certain areas of knowledge as well as your skills in critical thinking/clinical reasoning and written communications.
A case description with specific instructions for each station will be posted on the outside of the individual stations. You will not know to what stations you have been assigned
until you check in and you will not know the patient’s chief complaint until you arrive at each station. You will therefore want to arrive prepared to demonstrate your full range of clinical skills. The tasks that you will be asked to perform, you have learned in the first two years of medical school. At UCSF, for example, students learn this through FPC
lectures, FPC small groups, PE groups, Integrated Exercises, preceptorships, and other blocks such as BMB and Life Cycle.
How will I be evaluated?
As the final exam for the course, students will be evaluated based on their competency in the five foundations of FPC: professionalism, the patient-doctor relationship, communication skills, physical exam skills, and clinical reasoning.
At each station, a faculty member or standardized patient will be present to provide you feedback on your performance. Evaluations will be based on your ability to conduct a patient interview/discussion and perform a basic physical exam. You will be asked to describe, but not necessarily identify, all physical exam findings. All evaluators will
be using checklists similar to those you experienced last year during the mini-OSCE. A sample OSCE checklist is sometimes posted for your review. The actual checklists for each station are secure and will not be released prior to the OSCE. A numerical score will be generated for each student.
Performance on the written exercises will be assessed on a three point scale: above expected competency, at expected competency, and below expected competency. These points will be added to your checklist scores to generate your final OSCE performance score. No student will pass or fail solely based on the points from the written exercises.
How should I prepare?
The best preparation for the OSCE is to review and practice your interviewing and physical exam skills using the Adult PE Review checklist and the attached sample OSCE checklist from 2008. You are encouraged to practice with friends, during the Adult PE Review and
Self-Assessment exercise, and at the Life Cycle Integrated Exercise session. You may also wish to review the Bates videos.
Because you will be seeing patients, you will need to be dressed professionally, similar to your preceptorship dress with your white coat and name tag. You will also need to bring your stethoscope, reflex hammer, tuning fork, and visual acuity card (all other equipment will be provided in the examination rooms). Please make sure that you arrive on
time. Late arrival reflects poorly on your professionalism and lost station time may not be made up.
When do I get my OSCE score and what happens if I don’t do well?
OSCE scores will be posted approximately 2 weeks after the exam. In addition, students who have been identified by faculty as having areas of concern in their performance will be notified separately by email.
For students who do not perform at expected competency levels, we will work with you to arrange for special preceptorship and teaching in your areas of need before the clerkships start. We scheduled the OSCE with enough time before the clerkships begin to assure that anyone who needs further preparation will be able to complete it well in advance of the
clerkships.
Remember, the OSCE may also be a wonderful learning experience. The evaluators will usually be giving you feedback as you go through each station. Students regularly report AFTER the OSCE that they both enjoyed and learned a great deal from it.
Sample introduction to students
Paliative Care Resources
Death and Dying: A doctor’s perspective
Gallery of men and women before and after death
This is a link to an exhibit featuring pictures of individuals both
before and after death. As the website says:
This sombre series of portraits taken of people before and after they
had died is a challenging and poignant study. The work by German
photographer Walter Schels and his partner Beate Lakotta, who recorded
interviews with the subjects in their final days, reveals much about
dying – and living.
It is quite powerful, and we encourage you to take time and look at it
during the next few weeks of curriculum regarding seriously ill and
dying patients.
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You may find these articles from the New England Journal of Medicine a provocative read.
Clinical Decisions
The Care of an Unresponsive Patient with a Poor Prognosis
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/360/5/527
Fighting On
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/360/5/444?query=TOC
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Advice for the Life Cycle block at UCSF medical school
This block is considered the “Life Cycle/Epilogue/FPC” and is the last full-length block of the Essential Core curriculum. As usual, the medical students are taught by many excellent faculty instructors. Furthermore, there is a terrific group of MSIV students who will be
teaching in Life Cycle and also serving as mentors to assist students with planning for USMLE Step I and their 3rd year.
One important early point to note is that there is a required textbook for Life Cycle that you will want to pick up. It is Langman’s Medical Embryology, 10th edition, by TW Sadler, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006. (There might be a newer edition now.) The book comes with a very useful CD of animations called Simbryo. You will want to pick it up early as embryology will be one of the first topics in the course.
The directors of Life Cycle are Susan Masters and Linda Hopkins.
There is one copy of Langman on two-hour reserve in the library (under IDS 107). Version 2.0 of Simbryo is also available on-line (from campus or with vpn). Go to the “Useful Web Sites and Resources” section of the iROCKET Materials/Assessment page and click on the link. That section has links to other helpful embryology websites that the faculty and
students have found over the years.
Some helpful links
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/37476/home?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5939446517701113787&hl=en
video on adolescent health services
Hepatic encephalopathy: Grading system for encephalopathy
Flashcards
http://www.flashcardmachine.com/604111/7eg8
Source
Hospitalist Handbook
ERCP – Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography
BILIARY TRACT
Endoscopic retrograde cholangiography of the gallbladder and biliary passages .
Source
Clinical Anatomy
Welcome to the UCSF student run book exchange.
You’ve probably collected many books over your years in medical school. This site provides you with the chance to get rid of books that are probably cluttering your room, make some money in the process, and help fellow students.
Or, you’re in need of a book and want to get it for a great deal. Why not get it from a fellow UCSF student and save yourself and them some money as well?
This website brings UCSF student buyers and sellers together to exchange books and other items. We hope you find it helpful.
For now, this site is only for UCSF students and residents and posts are moderated.
DIRECTIONS FOR SELLERS:
1) Scroll down to the bottom of the page
2) Submit your list of books in the comments box in this format:
- Name
- book name, author, edition, price
- comments about the book and its usefulness
- Email address (so they can reach you)
(Either leave your first and last name and note that it is a UCSF email address, or leave your full email address)
DIRECTIONS FOR BUYERS:
To post a book you are interested in buying, just scroll to the bottom of the page, and follow the same directions for posting as above.
Contact the sellers if you wish to buy a book from them. Review the list of books and then send an email to the students you wish you buy a book from. Remember that it is ok to contact persons who posted books even if a few weeks back. Those books might still be available..
PLEASE DON’T FORGET TO INCLUDE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS AT THE END OF YOUR POST!
GOOD LUCK!
IF YOU’VE POSTED IN THE PAST AND YOUR BOOK IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE, PLEASE REPOST WHICH BOOKS ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE AND WE WILL UPDATE THE WEBSITE.
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CATEGORIZED POSTS – NEW FEATURE – IN PROGRESS
THE LINKS ARE TO STUDENT REVIEWS!
When did they post?
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GENERAL REVIEW
NMS Review for USMLE Step 1 (National Medical Series for Independent Study) .
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Appleton & Lange Review for the USMLE Step 1 .
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Deja Review USMLE Step 2 CK .
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ANATOMY
USMLE Road Map Gross Anatomy 2nd ed, White
- (like new): $10 ; Seller: Vincent Lam
BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE
BRS Behavioral Science
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Underground Clinical Vignettes Step 1: Behavioral Science (Underground Clinical Vignettes: Step 1) .
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BIOCHEMISTRY
High Yield Biochemistry 2nd ed, Wilcox
- (new): $20: Seller: Vincent Lam
Lippincott’s Illustrated Reviews: Biochemistry
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Underground Clinical Vignettes Step 1: Biochemistry
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MICROBIOLOGY
Underground Clinical Vignettes: Microbiology, Volume 1.
- Best offer: Seller: vikas.gupta@ucsf.edu
Blackwell’s Underground Clinical Vignettes: Microbiology, Volume 2 .
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NEUROANATOMY
High Yield Neuroanatomy 3rd ed, Fix
- (like new): $10; Seller: Vincent Lam
PATHOLOGY
Rapid Review Pathology 2nd ed, Goljan
- (like new): $25; Seller: Vincent Lam
BRS Pathology 3rd ed, Schneider et al
- (writing/highlighting): $10; Seller: Vincent Lam
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Underground Clinical Vignettes Step 1: Pathophysiology I: Pulmonary, Ob/Gyn, ENT, Hem/Onc .
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Underground Clinical Vignettes Step 1: Pathophysiology II: GI, Neurology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology .
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Underground Clinical Vignettes Step 1: Pathophysiology III: CV, Dermatology, GU, Orthopedics, General Surgery, Peds .
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PHARMACOLOGY
Underground Clinical Vignettes Step 1: Pharmacology.
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PHYSIOLOGY
BRS Physiology Cases and Problems 2nd ed, Costanzo
- (new): $25; Seller: Vincent Lam
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OTHER BOOKS
How to Choose a Medical Specialty
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Iserson’s Getting Into a Residency: A Guide for Medical Students, 7th Edition .
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First Aid for the Match, Fourth Edition (First Aid Series) .
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Appendix Anatomy
Appendix, normal, gross [ENDOSCOPY]
Source
Atlas of Human Anatomy: With Netteranatomy.com
Liver Anatomy
Source
Atlas of Human Anatomy: With Netteranatomy.com
ARTICLES OF INTEREST
ALL STUDENTS
Inspirational quotes for premedical students, medical students, and residents
Premedical students
How to determine the significance of your Science GPA .
How to determine your Science GPA .
Before you apply to the UCSF School of Medicine, there are a few things you should know
Related links: Kaplan MCAT
Related books: Examcrackers , Get Into Medical School: A Strategic Approach .
Medical Students
When the experience of medical school becomes too painful, you just have to stop and laugh at it all
How to choose 4th year electives before residency .
Match Day: A collection of videos of medical students on Match Day .
Surviving the scramble for a residency position: A guide for medical students .
Medical school graduation ceremonies and speeches: The captured moments .
Related books: Med School Confidential: A Complete Guide to the Medical School Experience: By Students, for Students .
UCSF SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Before you apply to the UCSF School of Medicine, there are a few things you should know .
How to study for the Brain Mind and Behavior Block (Neurology and Psychiatry) at UCSF .
USMLE EXAMS
Multiple choice questions for medical students preparing for USMLE Step 1 .
How to study for the USMLE Step 3 exam .
Related links: Kaplan USMLE Programs
Related books: First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 2010; First Aid for the USMLE Step 2 CK; First Aid for the USMLE Step 2 CS, Third Edition .
Internship (General)
How to maintain patient safety, get help, and load the boat during internship and residency .
How to manage depression in internship and residency .
How to stay up 30 hours or go without sleep for long periods during your internship and residency .
Related books: The Washington Manual Internship Survival Guide
General Surgery Residency
Surgery Internship Survival Guide .
Why general surgery residents quit their training and how to prevent this from happening to you .
Related books: The ABSITE Review
Personality Types
How to succeed in medical school if you are an ENFJ personality type medical student .
IF YOU FOUND THESE ARTICLES HELPFUL, PLEASE SUBSCRIBE!
Biliary Tract Anatomy
IMAGES
Biliary tract anatomy .
Biliary ducts and gallbladder .
Search engine for medical students and residents
Below is a search engine designed by medical students and residents. Websites included in the engine include top ranked schools of medicine sites (eg. learning modules from UCSF, Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, etc), pubmed, wikipedia, student doctor network, and top anatomy, radiology, and pathology sites. The results will also include pertinent videos and images.
If you have a good website/learning module (especially from your school) that you want us to include, please post it in the comments section below.
USMLE Step 1 Books
The hard part about studying for Step 1 is deciding which books to use to study for each section of the USMLE. Below is an (almost) complete list of resources.
To help you decide, click on the links to any of the books to read student reviews.
COMPREHENSIVE
First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 2010 .
First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 2009 .
First Aid Q&A for the USMLE Step 1 .
First Aid Cases for the USMLE Step 1 .
Pathophysiology for the Boards and Wards .
medEssentials: High-Yield USMLE Step 1 Review (Kaplan Medessenitals for the USMLE Step 1
Kaplan Medical USMLE Examination Flashcards: The 200 “Most Likely Diagnosis” Questions You Will See on the Exam for Steps 2 & 3
Kaplan Medical USMLE Step 1 Qbook
Step-Up to USMLE Step 1
Step-Up to USMLE Step 1: A High-Yield, Systems-Based Review for the USMLE Step 1
Underground Clinical Vignettes Step 1 Bundle
Underground Clinical Vignettes Step 1: Pathophysiology II: GI, Neurology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology
Underground Clinical Vignettes Step 1: Pathophysiology I: Pulmonary, Ob/Gyn, ENT, Hem/Onc
Underground Clinical Vignettes Step 1: Pathophysiology III: CV, Dermatology, GU, Orthopedics, General Surgery, Peds
Underground Clinical Vignettes Step 1: Microbiology I: Virology, Immunology, Parasitology, Mycology
Underground Clinical Vignettes Step 1: Microbiology II: Bacteriology
Blueprints Q&A Step 1
Appleton & Lange Practice Tests for the USMLE Step 1
Appleton & Lange Review for the USMLE Step 1
Clinical Vignettes for the USMLE Step 1: PreTest Self-Assessment and Review
ANATOMY
Underground Clinical Vignettes Step 1: Anatomy
USMLE Road Map: Gross Anatomy
Rapid Review: Anatomy Reference Guide
Rapid Review Gross and Developmental Anatomy: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access
BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
High-Yield Behavioral Science by Fadem .
Rapid Review Behavioral Science: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access
Underground Clinical Vignettes Step 1: Behavioral Science
BIOCHEMISTRY
Underground Clinical Vignettes Step 1: Biochemistry
Rapid Review Biochemistry: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access
CELL BIOLOGY
Rapid Review Histology and Cell Biology: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access
EMBRYOLOGY
High-Yield Embryology by Dudek .
EPIDEMIOLOGY AND BIOSTATISTICS
Appleton and Lange’s Review of Epidemiology and Biostatistics for the USMLE
HISTOLOGY
Rapid Review Histology and Cell Biology: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access
LABORATORY MEDICINE
Rapid Review Laboratory Testing in Clinical Medicine: with STUDENT CONSULT Access
MICROBIOLOGY
Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple .
Blackwell’s Underground Clinical Vignettes: Microbiology, Volume 2, Step 1
Rapid Review Microbiology and Immunology: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access
NEUROLOGY
Rapid Review Neuroscience
PATHOLOGY
USMLE Road Map Pathology
Rapid Review Pathology: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access
PHARMACOLOGY
Kaplan Medical USMLE Pharmacology and Treatment Flashcards: The 200 Questions You’re Most Likely to See on the Exam For Steps 1, 2 & 3
Underground Clinical Vignettes Step 1: Pharmacology
USMLE Road Map: Pharmacology
Rapid Review Pharmacology: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access
PHYSIOLOGY
BRS Physiology by Costanzo .
USMLE Road Map: Physiology .
Rapid Review Physiology: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access .
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USMLE Step 1 Books
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Clinical Review of Surgery
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Clinical Review of Surgery
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The Johns Hopkins ABSITE Review Manual
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The Johns Hopkins ABSITE Review Manual
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The Comprehensive ABSITE Review by Steven Fiser
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Some students like to think of this book as a hybrid of the regular ABSITE Review book and the Senior ABSITE review book. It is also significantly more in depth in each of the categories.
This is not a book you can cram at the end of January. It will take you significantly longer to read through it.
Senior surgery residents have found this book extremely useful.
The book is 450 pages, a length that some students find this too long. One student writes: “I re-opened my new comprehensive ABSITE review today, and it just really seems long. I tried to envision myself getting through 450 pages of dense material in the last week of January, and I just don’t see it happening.”
The Comprehensive ABSITE Review by Steven Fiser
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Source: studentdoctor.net
The ABSITE Review by Steven Fiser
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As far as the little mistakes go, I think that Fiser has less than most study resources. Also, most of the mistakes are really just outdated recommendations. Since expert opinions vary, and the ABSITE tends to lag a few years behind the literature, I’m not sure if such corrections would be much help.
The ABSITE Review by Steven Fiser
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Significance of your ABSITE score
The ABSITE score is used by program directors to determine your progression in residency.
Doing poorly on the exam can have negative effects. One student writes: “theres been at least one example of a resident in my program who scored decently on the junior exam and below 20th percentile on the senior test. and disciplinary action was taken against them.”
Significance of your ABSITE score
source: studentdoctor.net
How to study for the Senior ABSITE
The Senior ABSITE is significantly different from the Junior ABSITE and students struggles to reconcile those differences.
One student writes: “All those above me have that skimming through Fiser and doing the usual minimal things that i do for the absite and get by will not work.”
Resources that students use include:
- Sesap
- Fiser books
- MSU
How to study for the Senior ABSITE
How to study for the Junior ABSITE
Surgery residents are expected to take the ABSITE exam each year of residency. First and second year general surgery residents take the Junior ABSITE. This exam is mostly basic science, with some clinical questions.
There are some who are extremely talented, and can take 1 week to study for the exam.
Does your score matter? Absolutely, and how well you do relative to your peers is what is important. If you score below a certain percentile set by your residency program, you might be placed on probation, and/or fired from your program.
Is my Absite score used in fellowship applications? Well, some residents seem to think that it does matter. Granted, who you know and where you trained matters significantly more than your ABSITE score.
Do preliminary residents have to take the exam? This depends on the program in which you are in. Of course, if you’re a prelim for general surgery, you want to do well. If you’re a prelim for another surgical specialty, your score probably won’t matter, and your goal might be to beat the categoricals (for fun).
How to study for the Junior ABSITE
How to study for the ABSITE
”Reading Schwart/Sabistan are not productive ways of studying for the ABSITE in my opinion. There’s just too much filler in those kind of textbooks.”
How to study for the ABSITE
Source: studentdoctor.net
The Practice ABSITE Question Book by Steven Fiser <– Click to read reviews
This question book contains over 500 practice questions for the ABSITE Exam. It also contains detailed explanations for each answer. It covers all of the major topic areas.
The book is 240 pages and is rated an average 4/5 stars on student reviews. The questions in this book are simple and basic. It is not as difficult as the ABSITE, but is a great way to reinforce important concepts.
In summary, this book provides a basic review for topics the ABSITE, but is too simple to rely solely on it for ABSITE review.
CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW TO READ SURGERY RESIDENT REVIEWS OF The Practice ABSITE Question Book by Steven Fiser
Absite topics
Below are some general statements about the topics covered in the ABSITE.
“The ABSITE in-training exam you take yearly during residency contains a fair # of basic-science related to those on the USMLE exams”
- The ABSITE covers gastrointestinal physiology and pathology questions. It also covers topics in endocrinology and respiratory system (ex. respiratory quotient has been quoted as being tested each year. )
- Other questions that students have mentioned are: “Where is the SA node?” ”How do you revert the protamine induced hypotension?” For that question, one student stated that Calcium was the closest answer. Another question that students have stated is: “What is the most common side effect of protamine?”
- There are also anesthesia type questions on the exam. One student quotes: “… and then the anesthesia like questions made me want to rather pass ureteric stones. I mean how many malignant hyperthermias have we seen. I havent seen even one.” On this topic, one faculty member wrote: “Continue to expect those “anesthesia like” questions – you will have them every year.”
- … some of the more esoteric topics (ortho, gyne, etc) that show up on the ABSITE (my chief year ABSITE had like 15 gyn questions, and lo and behold, gyn also showed up on my oral boards!).
- Instead, read the common stuff and know well (Hernias, Choles, Appys, Endocrine). Don’t forget to read and review the Transplant and Oncology as these subjects have loads of Basic Science material to test.
Below is a list of ABSITE review books and resources for surgery residents. Below I’ve included additional ABSITE information.
ABSITE REVIEW BOOKS – CLICK ON THE LINKS BELOW TO READ RESIDENT REVIEWS
The ABSITE Review by Steven M Fiser
The Practice ABSITE Question Book by Steven M. Fiser
The Comprehensive ABSITE Review (Fiser, Comprehensive ABSITE Review) by Steven M Fiser
The Senior ABSITE Review by Steven M Fiser
The Johns Hopkins ABSITE Review Manual (American Board of Surgery In-Training Examination)
First Aid for the® ABSITE (FIRST AID Specialty Boards)
General Surgery ABSITE and Board Review, Fourth Edition: Pearls of Wisdom
General Surgery Review (For The Written Boards And Absite)
Absite Review, Simplified
Review of Surgery: Basic Science and Clinical Topics for ABSITE
Clinical Review of Surgery – ABSITE Edition
Pass the ABSITE!
The official website for the ABSITE is http://home.absurgery.org/default.jsp?certabsite
What is the ABSITE?
“The American Board of Surgery offers annually to general surgery residency programs the In-Training Examination (ABSITE), a written, multiple-choice examination designed to measure the progress attained by residents in their knowledge of basic science and the management of clinical problems related to general surgery. The ABSITE is furnished to program directors as an evaluation instrument to assess residents’ progress. The results are released only to program directors. It is not available to individual residents and is not required as part of the certification process.” – http://home.absurgery.org
Examination Questions
“Since 2006 the ABS has offered the ABSITE as a junior level (PG-1 and -2) and senior level (PG-3 to -5) examination. Both the junior- and senior-level versions consist of 225 multiple-choice questions; examinees are given five hours to take the exam. For the junior-level exam, 60% of the examination focuses on basic science, while 40% centers on the management of clinical surgical problems. In the senior-level exam, 20% of the exam focuses on basic science and 80% on clinical management. The relative emphasis on clinical content categories in the two examinations is shown in the following table.” – http://home.absurgery.org
Examination Content
| Content Category | Junior Level | Senior Level |
| Body as a Whole | 66.6% | 25% |
| Gastrointestinal Tract | 10.0% | 25% |
| CV/Respiratory | 7.8% | 16.7% |
| GU, Head and Neck, Skin, Musculoskeletal, CNS | 7.8% | 16.7% |
| Endocrine, Spleen, Lymphoma, Breast | 7.8% | 16.7% |
Source
http://home.absurgery.org/default.jsp?certabsite
Absite topics
Absite exam introduction
Some facts
- ABSITE stands for The American Board of Surgery In-Training Examination
- It is a multiple-choice examination
- It is designed to measure the progress attained by residents in their knowledge of basic science and the management of clinical problems related to general surgery.
- You can only get your results from your program director
What residents in forums say about the ABSITE
- The ABSITE in-training exam you take yearly during residency contains a fair # of basic-science related to those on the USMLE exams
- It can be heavy on USMLE Step 1 stuff (junior)
- It is more specific toward clinical practice of surgery (senior)
- The exam is somewhat repetitive each year, and that’s where many of these ABSITE guides get their info. There are more than a few questions that repeat every year
- The questions on ABSITE are repetitive.
- PGY 1 & PGY2 Exam version is skewed more toward basic science.
- PGY 3, PGY4 and PGY5 Exam version is skewed more toward clinical science.
Here’s a list of ABSITE review books and resources for surgery residents. Below I’ve included additional ABSITE information.
ABSITE REVIEW BOOKS – You may click on the links to read reviews.
The ABSITE Review by Steven M Fiser
The Practice ABSITE Question Book by Steven M. Fiser
The Comprehensive ABSITE Review (Fiser, Comprehensive ABSITE Review) by Steven M Fiser
The Senior ABSITE Review by Steven M Fiser
The Johns Hopkins ABSITE Review Manual (American Board of Surgery In-Training Examination)
First Aid for the® ABSITE (FIRST AID Specialty Boards)
General Surgery ABSITE and Board Review, Fourth Edition: Pearls of Wisdom
General Surgery Review (For The Written Boards And Absite)
Absite Review, Simplified
Review of Surgery: Basic Science and Clinical Topics for ABSITE
Clinical Review of Surgery – ABSITE Edition
Pass the ABSITE!
The official website for the ABSITE is http://home.absurgery.org/default.jsp?certabsite
What is the ABSITE?
“The American Board of Surgery offers annually to general surgery residency programs the In-Training Examination (ABSITE), a written, multiple-choice examination designed to measure the progress attained by residents in their knowledge of basic science and the management of clinical problems related to general surgery. The ABSITE is furnished to program directors as an evaluation instrument to assess residents’ progress. The results are released only to program directors. It is not available to individual residents and is not required as part of the certification process.” – http://home.absurgery.org
Examination Questions
“Since 2006 the ABS has offered the ABSITE as a junior level (PG-1 and -2) and senior level (PG-3 to -5) examination. Both the junior- and senior-level versions consist of 225 multiple-choice questions; examinees are given five hours to take the exam. For the junior-level exam, 60% of the examination focuses on basic science, while 40% centers on the management of clinical surgical problems. In the senior-level exam, 20% of the exam focuses on basic science and 80% on clinical management. The relative emphasis on clinical content categories in the two examinations is shown in the following table.” – http://home.absurgery.org
Examination Content
| Content Category | Junior Level | Senior Level |
| Body as a Whole | 66.6% | 25% |
| Gastrointestinal Tract | 10.0% | 25% |
| CV/Respiratory | 7.8% | 16.7% |
| GU, Head and Neck, Skin, Musculoskeletal, CNS | 7.8% | 16.7% |
| Endocrine, Spleen, Lymphoma, Breast | 7.8% | 16.7% |
Source
http://home.absurgery.org/default.jsp?certabsite
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