Virtual Library

RESOURCES FOR SURGICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH

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Return to Surgical Education Information

Web Pages of Interest to Surgery Residents and Faculty
Vanderbilt Surgical House Officer Manual	House Officer Manual for All Vanderbilt Residents
VU Surgery Weekly Log	Virtual Journal Club Grid
VU Surgical Rotations Goals & Expectations
Grand Rounds,Teaching Conferences, M & M	Surgery Evaluation Forms: Faculty; Rotation; Resident
VUMC Graduate Medical Education Office	PubMed (National Library of Medicine Database Open to Public)
ACGME--Accreditation Council for General Medical Education	Eskind Digital Library (Vanderbilt)
ACGME Surgery Program Requirements	ACGME Defined Categories--Minimum Number of Cases
AAMC--Association of American Medical Colleges
ACGME Six General Competencies	ACS--American College of Surgeons
ASE--Association for Surgical Education	CMS: Information for Physicians
MDConsult	SAGES
ABS--American Board of Surgery	APDS—Association of Program Directors in Surgery
Evidence Based Reviews in Surgery (ACS) Requires Log-in with ACS Password
FACS/APDS Pilot Project Resident Core Competency Assessment System

Journals, Articles, and Resources

Virtual Journal Club 2007-2008

>1200 Journals in the Eskind Biomedical Library -- Alphabetical by Title

Journal of the American College of Surgeons (From home must go to EBL)

Current Surgery (From home must go to EBL)

Archives of Surgery (From home must go to EBL)

Surgery (From home must go to EBL)

American Journal of Surgery (From home must go to EBL)

British Journal of Surgery (From home must go to EBL)

JAMA

New England Journal of Medicine

EBM--Evidence-based Medicine--Vanderbilt Databases (EBL)

EBM--Clinical Informatics Consult Service (CICS) Evidence Based Site -- Sign in and choose topics including Breast Cancer and Trauma

A Practical Guide to Statistics by Michael L. Cheatham, MD, FACS, FCCM (now at Orlando Regional and a former Vanderbilt GS Resident and Critical Care Fellow)

Sabiston Textbook of Surgery,16th Ed. Edited by Townsend, Beauchamp, Evers, Mattox. Philadelphia: Saunders, 2001—Through MDConsult—Click on Generic Account & then Books tab. Scroll down.

Curriculum for General Surgery Residents, 4th Edition -- 2002

Surgical Educator's Handbook, FREE to Association for Surgical Education Members

Manual on Preparing Surgical Case Reports
for Presentation or Publication FREE to Association for Surgical Education Members

The Virtual Mentor: AMA's online ethics journal for medical students and physicians

Vanderbilt Burn Center Journal Articles

www.surgicalcriticalcare.net

David Richardson, et al."Perioperative Risk Assessment in Elderly and High-Risk Patients." JACS 199:133--146, July 2004.

Patient Privacy Violation—BMJ 327: 2003.

Professionalism in Surgery—JACS 197:605-608, 2003

Molly Cooke, M.D., David M. Irby, Ph.D., William Sullivan, Ph.D., and Kenneth M. Ludmerer, M.D. American Medical Education 100 Years after the Flexner Report. N Engl J Med 2006;355:1339-44.

WEEKLY LOG OF RESIDENT WORK HOURS
Resident’s Name: PGY Level: Service:
Week of:	Arrive		Leave	Return for Night call--hours worked	Daily Total
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Tuesday
Wednesday
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Friday
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Weekly Total
CLINIC
Service
Day(s), Date(s) & Hours		_________ _________ _________
Attending(s)
Did you get 24 Hours straight off this week or 48 hours off in the past 14 days?
17 Sep 2007