About SCORE
The Surgical Council on Resident Education (SCORE®) is a nonprofit, noncommercial organization formed in 2004 by the principal organizations involved in U.S. surgical education. SCORE's mission is to improve the education of trainees in general surgery and related specialties through the development of a national curriculum. This website, The SCORE Portal, was created to provide high-quality educational content, in support of the SCORE Curriculum Outline, to residents and residency programs. All portal content is developed by surgical educators as well as reviewed by the SCORE Editorial Boards. All content on The SCORE Portal is peer-reviewed.
SCORE's efforts are intended to define the specialty of general surgery and provide greater assurance that residents are receiving sufficient training in all areas. SCORE focuses primarily on the five years of progressive education and training that constitute general surgery residency in the U.S., after medical school but prior to independent practice. More recently, SCORE is adding fellowship-level (post-residency) content for related specialties, such as pediatric surgery, surgical critical care, surgical oncology, and vascular surgery. The fellowship content is developed by experts in those areas. Other specialties are being added to the portal, such as oral and maxillofacial surgery.
Content for this site is developed in accordance with the six competencies required of a graduating resident: patient care; medical knowledge; professionalism; interpersonal and communication skills; practice-based learning; and systems-based practice. SCORE began its work with the patient care and medical knowledge components and now addresses the other competencies.
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Member Organizations
The following organizations are members of SCORE. Representatives from these nonprofit surgical organizations meet regularly to guide SCORE's mission.
American Board of Surgery
The ABS was founded in 1937 to provide board certification in general surgery and related specialties. It is one of the 24 member boards of the American Board of Medical Specialties.
www.absurgery.org
American College of Surgeons
The ACS is a scientific and educational association founded in 1913 to improve the quality of surgical care. With more than 78,000 members, it is the largest surgical organization in the world.
www.facs.org