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85 questions focus on benign and malignant conditions of the abdominal wall and solid organs. Includes questions covering hernias, obesity, liver transplants, and bariatrics. Combining this module with the alimentary tract module provides a comprehensive review for surgeons who commonly handle patient problems associated with the entire abdominal cavity.

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

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. 

80 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 emergencies.

50 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.

25 questions cover situations that often present conundrums in clinical care. Specific topics include end-of-life decision making, disaster management, publishing ethics, and quality assurance.

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 wound care, surgical site infection prevention, nutritional approaches, transfusion practice, common complications, and recommended application of frequently used drugs.

65 questions provide a review of issues found in a critically ill patient. The emphasis is on helping the surgeon understand common problems that require care in an intensive care environment, such as burns, shock, and sepsis.

75 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.

75 questions cover challenging benign and malignant conditions of the abdominal wall, groin, and solid abdominal organs, as well as the gastrointestinal tract. Both chronic and acute conditions are addressed. Includes hernias, intestinal disorders, bariatrics, genetics, and recent clinical trials and clinical guidelines.

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.

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

45 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.

50 questions address advanced topics in the management of critically ill patients, such as mechanical ventilation, cardiac care, organ dysfunction and failure, care of older patients, ARDS, sepsis, metabolic and electrolyte disorders, and shock states.

50 questions discuss evolving advanced management topics, including penetrating and blunt injuries, traumatic brain injuries, thermal injuries, pancreatitis, volvulus, diverticulitis, intestinal ischemia and biliary disorders, and pain management.