Course Support: Surgery Clerkship

Find clinical answers at the point of care or anywhere you need them! Now you can access UpToDate's current, synthesized clinical information — including evidence-based recommendations — quickly and easily on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch.

Notes: To use the mobile app you must first create an UpToDate account. Use this link on the WCMC-Q network to create an account.

Do you need evidence-based answers to clinical questions at the point of care? The First Consult iPhone/iPad app is your solution. The app allows First Consult’s trusted answers to be stored on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. A data connection is required for the initial content download and content updates, but is not required to use the app itself.

Notes: Log in with your ClinicalKey account created from a WCMC-networked computer.

DynaMed Plus™ is the clinical reference tool that physicians go to for answers to clinical questions. Content is written by a world-class team of physicians and researchers who synthesize the evidence and provide objective analysis. DynaMed Plus topics are always based on clinical evidence and the content is updated multiple times each day to ensure physicians have the information they need to make decisions at the point of care.
Note:To use this app begin by clicking on the "Get the DynaMed Plus Mobile App" link on the DynaMed Plus homepage. See this link for more information.

Touch Surgery is an interactive mobile surgical simulator that guides you step-by-step through every part of an operation, and every decision that’s made along the way. It’s the OR in your pocket.

Preop Eval organizes and presents much of the guidance that one needs in order to evaluate and prepare adult patients for non-cardiac surgery. It is based upon the guidelines on this topic from the American College of Cardiology of 2014, the European Society of Anaesthesiology of 2011, , and more. The app contains 1 algorithm and 3 resources: the cardiac evaluation algorithm, guidance on starting and stopping key medications in the perioperative period, guidance on timing of surgery after cardiac events, and guidance on preoperative testing. It also contains a review of preoperative evaluation mainly for students and residents.

AO Surgery Reference is an online repository for surgical knowledge. It describes the complete surgical management process from diagnosis to aftercare for all fractures of a given anatomical region, and also assembles relevant material that the AO has published before.

drawMD General Surgery’s content was developed by physicians and clinical practitioners to facilitate discussion of the most common conditions and procedures. The drawMD platform allows you to easily annotate any condition on our pertinent medical illustration or you can easily upload your own images.