Additional Vascular Surgery Educational Resources
We hope you use this eBook as a review for your rotations, undergraduate medical licencing examinations, and entry to independent practice. This resource is a summary and is by no means comprehensive. That noted, in every chapter we have included links to additional resources if you wish to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the topics covered. As our mission is to make vascular surgery education accessible, we prioritize open access publications and free materials.
A few highly recommended additional resources include:
The Gore Medical Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Combat Manual is an informative and entertaining read intended as a vascular surgery crash course for medical students, residents, and fellows alike. Highly accessible with a thoughtfully determined level of detail, but lacking in learning activities (e.g. questions, videos, etc.), this resource is a wonderful complement to the APDVS eBook.
TeachMe Surgery is a student friendly online resource complete with short quizzes to help cement learning and recommended readings from the literature. Clear and concise, this is a great just-in-time learning resource.
The Audible Bleeding Medical Student Archive contains podcast episodes tailored for medical students.We suggest paying special attention to the Holding Pressure series. Whereas this eBook is organized by disease, Holding Pressure episodes are organized by surgical procedure. These episodes contain a wealth of high-yield information and we will include links to Holding Pressure episodes throughout the eBook when applicable.
- You can listen to Audible Bleeding episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, or Soundcloud
The Audible Bleeding Exam Prep curriculum and the associated podcast series. While this resource is intended for postgraduate trainees and fellows and therefore beyond the scope of this curriculum, it is a well authored, no-nonsense resource for those who wish to deepen their knowledge base. The accompanying podcast series also allows you to learn or study on the go!
- You can listen to Audible Bleeding episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, or Soundcloud
All You Need to Know About Vascular Surgery: A Guide for Medical Students, Early Year Doctors and Allied Healthcare Professionals. The Journal of Vascular Societies Great Britain and Ireland (JVSGBI) has authored a concise, high-yield, well organized, and well illustrated eBook tailored to those learners and professionals with limited previous vascular surgery exposure. This resource is a wonderful primer for next-day activities as topics are covered in two pages. Please note, this eBook follows European guidelines and may present treatments not available in North America, however, this eBook remains highly relevant to your learning. Like the APDVS eBook, it is downloadable as a PDF.
VascularTraining.org is an online repository of vascular surgery trainee resources compiled during the stages of the COVID-19 pandemic when providing traditional education was challenging and learning content was increasingly available online. Find videos, landmark and other informative papers, and device information here. Like the Audible Bleeding Exam Prep curriculum, the primary audience for this content is postgraduate trainees but is very accessible for undergraduate students who wish to deepen their knowledge base. This resource is password protected. The password is: Vasceducation2021!
The SVS Interactive Practice Guidelines Mobile App has easy-to-find evidence-based guideline recommendations and easy-to-use clinical calculators (CEAP, VCSS, GLASS, WIfI, WVI CLTI Mortality Risk, Postthrombotic Syndrome score, VQI AAA Mortality Risk). For any trainee on vascualr surgery rotations, this is an extrmely helpful resource when looking for answers on the go! Find it here: Apple App Store or Android Google Play
While tailored more towards general surgery trainees, LearnAbdominal.com provides a wonderful, student-friendly primer on reading abdominal CTAs. Scroll through the Annotated teaching case to review abdominal anatomy as seen on CT. Every organ is labelled! We also recommend viewing the Evaluating the abdominal arteries video lecture to familiarize yourself with abdominal vasculature as seen on CTA.