McGraw-Hill the release of AccessSurgery, a resource for surgical education that combining McGraw-Hill references with surgical videos and animations. According McGraw-Hill, AccessSurgery is the "first online resource for surgeons organized by key topics to reflect the Accreditation College for Graduate Medical Education's (ACGME) mandate for a general surgery core curriculum. AccessSurgery also helps address two of the ACGME's core competencies of medical knowledge and practice-based learning and improvement."

It contains:

• 1,400+ board review questions and answers and the ability to track and report scores
• Schwartz's Principles of Surgery, 8th Edition
• CURRENT Surgical Diagnosis & Treatment, 12th Edition
• Zollinger's Atlas of Surgical Operations, 8th Edition
• Skandalakis' Surgical Anatomy
• Surgery Review Illustrated
• CURRENT Consult Surgery
• Surgical videos from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
• Surgical animations adapted from Zollinger's Atlas of Surgical Operations, 8th Edition
• Video podcasts highlighting surgical techniques from the editors of Schwartz's Principles of Surgery
• Drug database
• Guidelines
• Differential diagnosis tool with over 100 symptoms and diseases
• Cancer Staging tables
• AccessSurgery blog (available to subscribers and non-subscribers)

Individuals can subscribe for $995, institutions have to ask for a price quote.

For more information go to AccessSurgery or About AccessSurgery