About AccessSurgery

McGraw-Hill's AccessSurgery.com is an integrated online resource that provides medical students, surgical residents, and practicing surgeons with quick answers to surgical inquiries from trusted sources. Organized around the ACGME's (Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education) mandate for a Core Curriculum, AccessSurgery delivers content in context.


With AccessSurgery, program directors can build a custom curriculum:

  • Create rotations online
  • Select references, videos, and animations
  • Assign board review, selecting the number of questions and the passing grade
  • Link out to other web resources
  • Track and report resident usage

AccessSurgery offers leading content from:


    Surgical Videos: 

Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

    Surgical Animations: 

Adapted from Zollinger’s Atlas of Surgical Operations, 8th Edition

    Textbooks: 

Schwartz’s Principles of Surgery, 8th Edition
Trauma, 6th Edition
CURRENT Surgical Diagnosis & Treatment, 12th Edition
Maingot's Abdominal Operations, 11th Edition
Obesity Surgery: Principles and Practice
Principles of Critical Care, 3rd Edition

    Surgical Atlas: 

Zollinger's Atlas of Surgical Operations, 8th Edition

    Surgical Anatomy: 

Skandalakis’ Surgical Anatomy

    Board Review: 

Surgery Review Illustrated and Schwartz's Principles of Surgery: Self-Assessment and Board Review, 8th Edition

    Quick Answers: 

CURRENT Consult Surgery
CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment in Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery, 2nd Edition


In addition to providing unparalleled, integrated content, AccessSurgery offers a range of special features designed to both assist resident education and support surgical practice.
  • Take a Board Review test from Surgery Review Illustrated and Schwartz's Principles of Surgery: Self-Assessment and Board Review, 8th Edition, then email the results.
  • Look up a symptom or disease in our Differential Diagnosis (DDx) tool.
  • Download the free PDA diagnostic tool from CURRENT Consult Surgery.
  • Assess the extent of disease through Cancer Staging Tables.
  • Discover related Government Guidelines by clicking a pre-populated search box.
  • Launch a Customized Search for just videos, just images, or view full-site results.
  • Research medication indications, dosages, and contraindications through an integrated Drug Database provided by Gold Standard.

Through the ability to report self-assessment results, AccessSurgery also helps surgical programs address two of the ACGME Core Competencies—medical knowledge and practice-based learning and improvement.

Each month, new surgical videos from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine are posted to the site. These high-quality, narrated operations are chapterized to enable quick access to the most relevant section of the surgery. Or watch an entire operation, skin-to-skin, for information about port placement, incisions, and closings, as well as the nuances of the operation itself.


The editorial team of Schwartz’s Principles of Surgery provides monthly Text Updates on key topics. Spearheaded by Dr. Seymour Schwartz, founding editor, the Editor’s Journal Review offers original analyses of recent journal articles.


AccessSurgery is guided by a preeminent Advisory Board.


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