Mary E. Klingensmith, MD
Association of Program Directors in Surgery
March 25, 2011
With gratitude…
• Richard H. Bell, Jr., MD
• Surgical Council On Resident Education
• Retired February 2, 2011
Overview
 Current status of portal
 Stats
 Module update
 Content update
 Operations structure
 New Features
 Under development
 Questions
Current stats
 July 1, 2010: subscription only resource
 210 allopathic programs currently subscribing
 >85% of categorical residents
 3 international
 Pan-African Association of Christian Surgeons
 5 residency programs
 9 osteopathic programs
 Cost: $100/resident/yr (allopathic),
$125/res/yr (osteopathic)
 …a very successful year
Current structure
 SCORE Council
 APDS
 ABS
 ASA
 ASE
 ACGME
 ACS
 SAGES
 ACS-RAS
 Meets twice annually
 Klingensmith chair (Bell retired)
Operations Structure
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MD lead: Klingensmith
IT lead: Mark Hickey
IT vendor: Amirsys
Customer Support: Caroline Foote and Kelly Reeves
Four working groups:
 Operations group
 IT/operations
 Planning Committee
 Resident Advisory Group
SCORE Planning Committee
Mary Klingensmith, Chair
Stan Ashley
Jim Valentine
Tom Cogbill
Wayne Meredith
Erik van Eaton
Frank Lewis
Mark Malangoni
Resident Advisory Group
 8 residents
 2 year terms
 All levels
 Represent breadth of residency programs
 Travis Smith (PGY 4, Gundersen)
 Ryan Earnest (PGY 4, WPAFB)
 Jay MacGregor (PGY 5, U North Dakota)
 Michael Kim (PGY 3, U Rochester)
 Katie Connolly (PGY 3, Maine Medical Center)
 *Lin Riccio (PGY 3/lab, UVA)
 Jenny Guido (PGY 2, USF)
 Bala Sambandam (PGY 3, UTSW)
 In-person meeting at ACS Clinical Congress
 Biweekly conference calls
User outreach and feedback
 Kampyle
 Send bugs and suggestions (and even praise)
 Reviewed daily; aggregate review bimonthly
 info@surgicalcore.org
 support@surgicalcore.org
 Facebook page
 APDS listserve
 Require email address as username for direct
communication
Modules
 Patient care
 Diseases/conditions(broad) and operations/procedures
(essential-common)
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Total 271
 Medical Knowledge
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Total 77
 Current total: 348
Content update
 External content
 ACS Surgery Weekly Curriculum
 MDContent
 Evidence Based Reviews in Surgery
 MCQs
 Approx 1500 questions
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Retired ABSITE questions
~1200 licensed from Lippincott/O’Leary
Resident MCQ contest
 Robust reporting feature
Current Publisher Partners
 Lippincott – Greenfield Surgery
 Lippincott – Fischer Mastery of Surgery (5th Ed.)
 Lippincott- O’Leary The Physiologic Basis of Surgery
 ~1200 MCQs
 Decker – ACS Surgery
 Decker – ACP Medicine
 SAGES- videos
 Springer – Norton Surgery
 Springer – The SAGES Manual
 Springer – The ASCRS Textbook
 Elsevier- Evan’s Pitfalls
 80 new chapters added in February
What’s new…other
 Program ‘best practices’
 Ambassador programs
 Facebook page
 Ongoing training webinars
 Stat Dx ‘deep linking’
 March 29
Coming soon…
 Essential uncommon operations/procedures
 March 29 (62 modules)
 SESAP questions
 New Innovations/E*value
 Other competencies
 All other modules (~350)
 SCORE to support fellowships (and integrated
programs?)
 AHPBA by summer
Future of SCORE…
 Assessment
 Support Milestones
 Integrate assessment tools
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Operative assessment
Assessment of competency/direct supervision issues with new
duty hour requirements
 Expansion to MOC?
 Expansion to international markets?
SCORE at SEW
 Booth in exhibit area
 ARCS
 Workshop Fri afternoon
 “How to get the most bang for your buck from SCORE:
perspectives from residents and program directors”
Contact us
 portal.surgicalcore.org
 www.surgicalcore.org
 Webinars for training:
 cfoote@surgicalcore.org
 info@surgicalcore.org
klingensmithm@wustl.edu
Questions?