SESAP 18: Basic + Advanced (Questions with Answers + Flashcards) (PDF)

Module-Based Learning
SESAP 18 and SESAP 18 Advanced
Surgical Education and Self-Assessment Program (SESAP®) 18 and SESAP 18 Advanced are premier educational resources promoting excellence and expertise for practicing surgeons. Explore the 18th edition of SESAP.
SESAP 18
SESAP® 18 offers expanded critiques that provide essential explanations for each of the 665 pertinent questions and all answer options. Select from nine content categories based on personal preferences and learning goals, including abdomen, alimentary tract, breast, emergency general surgery, endocrine, legal/ethics, perioperative care, surgical critical care, and trauma. Use search features to look up content quickly, create customized quizzes, and highlight and save content for future easy reference. Released in 2022, this edition continues the tradition of offering unsurpassed quality educational content for self-study and review, as developed and peer-reviewed by practicing surgeon authors from across the United States.
SESAP 18 Advanced
SESAP 18 Advanced modules build on SESAP 18 content and specifically focus on advanced clinical problems involving specialized and nuanced content within complex and emerging topics. The format and features are similar to SESAP 18, with the addition of special sections entitled “Controversies” that have no single correct answer. The “Controversy Items” provide comparisons with peer responses, and the critiques discuss each response option. Released in 2023, the SESAP 18 Advanced modules include 332 case-based questions across seven modules including abdomen; alimentary tract; breast; endocrine; melanoma, skin, sarcoma; surgical critical care; and trauma and emergency general surgery.
Highlights

All newly constructed, case-based, multiple-choice questions in general surgery
SESAP 18: 665 questions covering nine content areas
SESAP 18 Advanced: 332 questions providing specialized, in-depth content in seven areas 
Expanded critiques with evidence-based explanations for all answer options
Supporting references from current literature, with links to PubMed abstracts and other online references
Radiographic images, photographs, videos, and other educational media
Immediate feedback to facilitate mastery of content
Targeted search functionality for accessing desired information quickly
Personal performance summary
Optimization for use on mobile devices with the same content and features as the desktop web version

Content
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
Alimentary Tract
Breast
Emergency General Surgery
Endocrine
Legal/Ethics
Perioperative Care
Surgical Critical Care
Trauma

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
Alimentary Tract
Breast
Endocrine
Melanoma, Skin, Sarcoma
Surgical Critical Care
Trauma and Emergency General Surgery