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SESAP 18 Content

SESAP^® 18 consists of 665 newly constructed, case-based, multiple-choice questions. Critiques provide evidence-based explanations addressing all the answer choices, supporting references from the current literature, and related images. The latest edition covers the breadth of general surgery in nine content categories: abdomen, alimentary tract, breast, emergency general surgery, endocrine, legal/ethics, perioperative care, surgical critical care, and trauma.

Subscribers can choose from packages containing all nine categories or as few as three categories. Other categories can be added any time based on learning and practice needs.

This edition continues the tradition of offering unsurpassed quality educational content developed across three years by six committees with a total of 38 practicing surgeon authors representing a range of clinical and academic environments, general surgery and surgical specialties, and practices from every region of the United States.

Content Categories

Abdomen

102 questions focus on benign and malignant conditions of the abdominal wall and solid organs. Combining this category with the alimentary tract category provides a comprehensive review for surgeons who commonly handle patient problems associated with the entire abdominal cavity.

Alimentary Tract

100 questions address benign and malignant conditions of the gastrointestinal tract. Combining this category with the abdomen category provides a comprehensive review for surgeons who commonly handle patient problems associated with the entire abdominal cavity.

Breast

50 questions cover benign and malignant diseases. Malignant disease questions include diagnostic approaches, genetics, and treatment options. Benign disease questions address screening, common benign masses, and other conditions.

Emergency General Surgery

100 questions review current approaches to patients with a variety of acute surgical problems. Topics range from problems of the skin and soft tissues to intra-abdominal catastrophes.

Endocrine

40 questions primarily focus on thyroid and parathyroid disease. Topics include diagnosis, recent management changes, and appropriate operative care. Less common endocrine problems are also covered.

Legal/Ethics

26 questions cover situations that often present conundrums in clinical care. Specific topics include end-of-life decision making, social media, overlapping surgery, and health disparities.

Perioperative Care

125 questions address common perioperative practices and problems. The material offers current evidence to support various management approaches. Key topics focus on providing safe environments for operative patients. Highlights include anticoagulant use, surgical site infection prevention, nutritional approaches, transfusion practice, common complications, and useful drugs.

Surgical Critical Care

52 questions provide a review of issues found in a critically ill patient, including the surgeon’s role in COVID. The emphasis is on helping the surgeon understand common problems that require care in an intensive care environment.

Trauma

70 questions focus on the essentials of urgent management of an injured patient, starting with resuscitation and diagnosis. Patient management of many common blunt and penetrating injuries are specifically included.

SESAP 18 Advanced Content

SESAP^® 18 Advanced modules focus on clinical problems in specialized areas that are complex and may be ambiguous or still evolving. Seven modules have 332 newly constructed, case-based, multiple-choice questions. Critiques provide evidence-based explanations addressing all the answer choices, while exploring controversial and complex topics in depth and incorporating key references from the current literature. The program was created using a rigorous, multistep process of question development and peer review by 41 expert practicing surgeons.

Each module may be purchased separately to allow greater flexibility for tailoring a package to a specialty. Additional modules can be added any time based on learning and practice needs.

SESAP 18 Advanced modules have corresponding prerequisite categories in SESAP 18. For example, the surgical critical care category of SESAP 18 is required to purchase the surgical critical care module of SESAP 18 Advanced. The prerequisite SESAP 18 category or categories and corresponding SESAP 18 Advanced module may be completed in any order. Please note: Both the trauma and emergency general surgery categories of SESAP 18 are required to purchase the combined trauma and emergency general surgery module of SESAP 18 Advanced. Subscribers who purchase all 9 categories of SESAP 18 will fulfill all prerequisites for SESAP 18 Advanced.

Module Content

Abdomen

50 questions cover challenging benign and malignant conditions of the abdominal wall, groin, and solid abdominal organs. Both chronic and acute conditions are addressed. Includes bariatrics.

Alimentary Tract

50 questions focus on complicated benign and malignant conditions of the gastrointestinal tract. Includes information on genetics and recent clinical trials.

Breast

45 questions address cutting edge topics on genetics, screening, risk assessment, operative techniques, and treatments of benign and malignant breast conditions. Questions on malignant breast tumor cover management of the axilla and oncoplastic breast surgery.

Endocrine

50 questions provide a review of challenging issues in endocrine care, including treatments for malignant and benign disease, genetics, and related topics.

Melanoma, Skin, Sarcoma

37 questions cover complex topics in melanoma, skin, and sarcoma. Treatments such as excision, immunotherapy, personalized cancer vaccines, and chemotherapy and radiation are addressed. Questions address genetics of melanomas, sarcomas, and skin cancers.

Surgical Critical Care

50 questions address advanced topics in the management of critically ill patients, such as mechanical ventilation, cardiac care, traumatic brain injury, care of older patients, ARDS, and sepsis.

Trauma and Emergency General Surgery

50 questions discuss evolving urgent management topics, including pain management, traumatic brain injuries, vascular shunts, thermal injuries, and traumatic penetrating and blunt injuries.

SESAP 18 Advanced participants who purchase a continuing medical education (CME) package can earn up to 112 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ beyond SESAP 18, all of which can be used for self-assessment purposes and to help fulfill requirements for CME credit. Read more about SESAP 18 Advanced CME or order SESAP.