New for June:

• Surgical Video: Gastroschisis
• Surgical Animation: Laparoscopic Fundoplication
• Editor’s Journal Review: Drs. Matthews and Smith review the NEJM article, “Endoscopic versus surgical drainage of the pancreatic duct in chronic pancreatitis.”
• Search Suggest: Start typing a search query and list of possible terms will automatically generate.
• Open URL Compliance
• Custom Curriculum (see next blog entry for details)

AccessSurgery’s Custom Curriculum is a cutting-edge functionality that enables program directors to create, track, and report usage of surgical rotations online. With the Custom Curriculum surgical programs are freed to build a resource that matches their unique needs – mapping AccessSurgery content and capabilities to their educational structure.

Program directors can:

1. Create a rotation and topic
2. Select related reference content, videos, and animations from AccessSurgery
3. Assign board review quizzes; customize the number of questions and set the passing grade
4. Link out to references or other web-based resources
5. Schedule grand rounds, lectures, or other offline activities
6. Download and save usage reports organized by resident or by rotation

As an alternative to creating rotations from scratch, program directors can choose to modify existing rotations. They can also add their own rotations to the Shared Library for other programs to view and adopt.

For residents, the Custom Curriculum provides a powerful educational tool. When they log on, the residents view the available rotations from their program director, as well as their own individual progress by rotation.

Residents can choose to login anonymously if they don’t want a particular session to be tracked.

To learn more about implementing the Custom Curriculum at your institution, please contact us.