•••quote:•••Originally posted by Tigger14:
•Is there a journal (like Peds in Review or Bulletins of the Journal of ACOG) that surgery residents read to review current topics for the ABS? Just thinking ahead a little here!•••••Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any journal/periodical that meets this criteria for preparation for the ABS exams.
Some Useful tools:
Selected Readings in General Surgery comes in 11 volumes/year about 2 every 2 months, however, to get a fairly comprehensive set takes about 4-5 years and they aren't light reading (the overview for each volume is >100 pages often) but all in all a great overview.
ACS surgery can be a decent review of things that come up often, it is updated quarterly but it isn't focused on board review, more focused on things needed by the practicing surgeon. Great algorithms though.
Of course any general surgical journal (Annals, Archives, Surgery, JACS, etc.) can be helpful, but haphazard in topic coverage.
Review Books:
Rush Review Manual: A Q&A book that lots of people use. Considered to be very good. I believe the last edition was 2 years ago.
The "Gold" Manual: sorry can't remember the name, but the last cover was Green with yellow print I think and one of the authors is Gold. another Q&A with more text as I recall (sorry don't own one), many consider this to be excellent as well. Not sure when the last edition was.
The Michigan State Manuals: Published by the Michigan State University's Residency program. Gives a very brief review of each of the topics listed in last year's ABSITE. Published Yearly to reflect the prior year's exams.
Other books I know people use:
Advanced Surgical Recall, by the same people who brought you Surgical Recall. Same format but about 3 times as thick so you can forget carrying it around. Good to have to find the answer to those annoying bits of information that you can't be bothered to get out a real textbook for.
The Review manuals for any of the major textbooks (Greenfield, Sabiston, and Schwartz all have Q&A books).
Finally, I would be remiss if I did not mention SESAP (which is now in its 11th edition) which is what the American College of Surgeons sells to those prepping for the boards. It comes in paper and CD-ROM versions and is actually quite good (but pricy).
Hope this helps you.
