Study Guides for the Surgery Exam!

Here's a review tool proven to be effective for ABSITE and board exam preparation. Modeled strictly on the style of the exams, these 819 multiple choice questions have been tested over a number of years on UCLA surgical students and significantly improved their scores. It's the perfect method to get the results you want.

• Improve your exam scores using questions tested on surgical students over a number of years and proven to be effective.
• Get the single best answer to each of the 819 multiple choice questions that closely follow the ABSITE and board style.
• Test yourself and score your responses using the electronic component.
• Consult additional key resources thanks to references to major reading materials in the field.

WHO WE ARE: Boardvitals Question Bank is a physician-run company created with the practicing physician and resident in mind. We know this field because we are in it! Our writers and expert reviewers are residents and attendings from many prestigious academic institutions and training programs. WHAT WE DO: We strive to provide a high-quality, affordable, effective, and powerful board review tool that can be used by practicing physicians, residents, and medical students. 100% GUARANTEE: We don't just provide a question bank, we provide up-to-date explanations from the literature with our answers and give you detailed feedback and assessment of your progress broken down by subject areas. With each question you can see how you compare to your peers, and gauge the difficulty of the question by what percentage of your peers answered it correctly or chose the same option you did. Our full-length practice exam is a great way to judge your overall preparedness and compare to your peers to estimate what your score might be on the real thing!

This 4th edition of The ABSITE Review is the perfect study guide for surgery residents preparing for the American Board of Surgery In-Training Examination (ABSITE). Unlike ordinary textbooks that force the reader to wade through paragraph after paragraph of extraneous material, this review manual uses a streamlined outline and list format. By making it easier to find the essential points on each topic, this study guide allows the reader to spend more time studying the important facts and less time searching for them. Even though the information is presented in a simple manner, it still includes all topics found on the exam — from basic science to clinical knowledge in general surgery as well as surgical subspecialties. Each year, thousands of general surgery residents express anxiety over preparation for the ABSITE. With this book as their guide, they can feel a lot more confident.

Now in its thoroughly updated Fourth Edition, General Surgery Board Review is indispensable for surgical residents and general surgeons preparing for the American Board of Surgery’s certification and recertification examinations. This study guide maintains the core features that have made it one of the most popular board review books in the field, including questions and answers after each chapter and succinct but detailed reviews of all topic areas found on the ABSITE and certification exam. There’s a new chapter on bariatric surgery and minimally invasive procedures.