News & Announcements

SCORE School to Extend through August

SCORE is pleased to announce that the TWIS-based webinar series “SCORE School” will extend through the end of August. SCORE School debuted 6 weeks ago as a didactic resource while hospitals and faculty faced changes to learning schedules during COVID-19. In response to this continuing situation, SCORE School will continue through August. Sessions will be on Wednesdays at 8 PM ET. 

Upcoming topics can be found on the Webinars page.

SCORE has implemented a QR code so subscribing programs can track trainee attendance if in need of that data. In the first 4 weeks of the webinar series, there were 3,112 views (35% of them live, 65% later views of the recordings). Even several weeks later, each webinar is typically viewed 20-30 times a day on the portal.

We are grateful to all the faculty from around the country who have volunteered their time and effort for this collaborative endeavor. SCORE School has received an enthusiastic response from viewers, owed in part to the expertise and dedication of surgeon presenters and the engaged and vocal audience.

For any questions regarding SCORE School, please contact info@surgicalcore.org. 

New "SCORE School" Weekly Didactic Sessions

SCORE is organizing a national weekly one-hour virtual conference, based on the "This Week in SCORE" (TWIS) curricular tool. 

Sessions will begin on Wednesday, May 13 at 8 PM ET and will occur every Wednesday at 8 PM through the summer and possibly beyond. Leading experts in the weekly TWIS topic will provide an overview and discuss high-yield teaching points, and take questions from the live audience via chat. Each session will be recorded for later viewing. SCORE is offering this to all programs and learners as hospitals and their faculty face changes to rotation and learning schedules with the unfolding pandemic.

If you would like dial-in information to access the webinars, email info@surgicalcore.org. To view recordings of the sessions and to view the schedule, go to the SCORE Webinars page. 

Click here to view the full TWIS topic schedule.

SCORE Live Webinar Series April 6th - April 15th

As programs adapt to a primarily virtual curriculum, SCORE is hosting a two-week webinar series on how to best use SCORE's online platform.

Visit the SCORE Webinars page to watch all of the recorded webinars in this series, SCORE Essentials for Social Distance Learning. Topics include: The ABSITE Study Plan, Using TWIS: More than a Weekly Quiz, SCORE Assignments, and the Pre-Intern Curriculum.

SCORE Announces Merger with American Board of Surgery

SCORE^® is pleased to announce that it has merged with the American Board of Surgery (ABS). As the national certifying body for general surgeons and related specialists, ABS supports SCORE’s mission to improve the education of surgical trainees. Since its founding, SCORE has thrived as an ABS subsidiary, and is now pleased to formalize its working relationship with ABS.

Following the merger, SCORE will continue to utilize its collective resources to provide trainees with peer-reviewed surgical content. Additionally, SCORE will continue to rely on the Advisory Council, Editorial Boards, and various organizations that play a crucial role in SCORE projects.

The ABS is an independent, nonprofit organization founded in 1937 to deliver board certification to individuals who have met a defined standard of education, training, and knowledge in the field of surgery.

If you have any questions, please contact info@surgicalcore.org.

Sincerely yours,

Mary E. Klingensmith, M.D.
Editor-in-Chief, SCORE
Vice President, ABS

"Using SCORE for ABSITE Prep" Webinar

New Chief Resident Webinar Session

SCORE hosted a free webinar on June 5 at 9 PM ET for your incoming chief resident leaders. Two members of SCORE’s Resident Advisory Board, Drs. Tess Aulet and Paul McGaha co-hosted the session. The goal of the webinar was to share best practices for resident self-study and tips for implementation of SCORE in general surgery training programs.  

New ABSITE Study Plan feature released!

SCORE released its newest feature, the ABSITE Study Plan, three weeks ago. Last week, we hosted three live, online webinars to help residents, administrators and program directors get up to speed with the functionality.  The Study Plan enables residents to create a self-diected learning improvement plan using their 2018 ABSITE score report, with a completion date and progress report that is shared with their program director.  Please feel free to review the recordings oft the webinars to learn more about the feature details:

• Monday, November 12: Evening (Session 1)
• Tuesday, November 13: Mid-Day (Session 2)
• Friday, November 16: Morning (Session 3)

Latest SCORE Newsletter

Wondering what's new with SCORE? Learn about new and upcoming features in our October 2018 newsletter! Read about our recent portal enhancements, find out how you can utilize the new ABSITE study plan, check out what's going on with our fellowship-level content, and more.

The SCORE newsletter is automatically sent to users of the SCORE Portal. Other individuals can sign up to receive it here: SCORE News Signup

SAGES Free Resident Webinar Series

Latest SCORE Newsletter

Wondering what's new with SCORE? Learn about new and upcoming features in our April 2018 newsletter! Read about our expanded key learning points and assignments library, see what great features are coming later in 2018, and check out what the TWIS Topic Schedule for 2018-2019 will look like.

The SCORE newsletter is automatically sent to users of the SCORE Portal. Other individuals can sign up to receive it here: Newsletter Sign Up

2018-2019 TWIS Topic Schedule

The two-year TWIS topic schedule has been updated to include the 2018-2019 academic year. See our TWIS schedule page for the updated Excel and PDF files.

Subscription Pricing Update

As the new academic year approaches, some changes to our subscription program will take effect as of May 23, 2018. Programs are free to renew their subscription until that date at our current pricing. As of that date, all programs will be charged a per-trainee fee of $175 per year. This fee applies to residents, fellows, medical students, and physician extenders in training.

The annual program license fee will remain $500 and will continue to cover one program director account, one program administrator account, and five accounts for faculty or additional administrative personnel. The fee for additional faculty members and other institutional personnel will remain at $325 each per year.

Orders can be placed through the SCORE Portal at store.surgicalcore.org. Please direct any questions to subscriptions@surgicalcore.org.

Pediatric Surgery NaT Now Available

The SCORE portal now includes access to the Pediatric Surgery NaT from the American Pediatric Surgical Association. The Pediatric Surgery NaT is updated quarterly to keep up with the most recent developments in strategies, techniques and procedures being used in practice. It is written for pediatric surgeons by pediatric surgeons and contains learning objectives, images, videos and more. Look for links to the NaT in our fellowship-level modules.

Former TWIS Questions Released to Question Bank

We recently released 145 former TWIS (This Week in SCORE) questions to our general question bank, just in time for some last-minute ABSITE prep. Be sure to check them out!

New Search Functionality

A recent update to the SCORE platform now provides more robust search functionality. When you search for a word or phrase, you will now see the term highlighted in the results snippets along with supporting text. This new feature will make it faster and easier for you to find the resource that you are looking for. Try it out now in the search box above!

Updated Modules with Key Points

Over the past few weeks, the SCORE team has released updated modules with supporting key points in the learning objectives. These new key points allow for quick review and on-the-go learning.

Be sure to check out the following:

Pediatric Surgery Curriculum Outline Posted

We have a new addition to our Curriculum Outline page - the SCORE Curriculum Outline for Pediatric Surgery, a list of patient care topics to be covered in a two-year pediatric surgery training program.

• SCORE Curriculum Outline for Pediatric Surgery (pdf)

Latest SCORE Newsletter!

Wondering what's the latest with TWIS as well as the rest of the SCORE website? Check out our September 2017 newsletter to learn about the TWIS "national doughnut," our auto-suggest search feature, the key points being added to modules for quick review, and lots of other great new content and features!

The SCORE newsletter is automatically sent to users of the SCORE Portal. Other individuals can sign up to receive it here: Newsletter Sign Up

Individual Subscriptions Available

SCORE offers individual subscriptions to recent general surgery residency graduates and others who want to continue to use SCORE as a comprehensive learning tool. For $325 per year, individual subscribers have access to all of the SCORE Portal's content, including This Week in SCORE and its new quiz each week, plus all of the portal's modules, textbook chapters, videos and question bank. Subscriptions also make a great gift!

See our Subscribe page to sign up today, or contact subscriptions@surgicalcore.org for more information.

2017-2018 General Surgery Curriculum Outline

The 2017-2018 edition of the SCORE Curriculum Outline for General Surgery is now available in spreadsheet and booklet form. Copies of the booklet will be mailed later this month to all general surgery training programs. The outline covers all six ACGME competencies.

• Spreadsheet:   Excel File    PDF File
• Booklet:   PDF File

New TWIS Year Underway

The 2017-2018 academic year is underway for This Week in SCORE (TWIS)! With the new year, we are pleased to introduce a new enhancement - each topic now includes direct links to the recommended readings for the week, in addition to the related modules and weekly quiz. Be sure to check it out!

We plan to have all quizzes/weeks for the year posted by the end of August. The entire topic schedule for the year is already available in Excel or PDF format from the TWIS homepage. Quiz performance data from 2016-2017 and previous years is still accessible through our Quiz History/Reports feature.