SESAP 18 and Advanced Continue to Provide Premier Surgical Education and Self Assessment

The current edition of Surgical Education and Self-Assessment Program (SESAP^®), SESAP 18, as well as its more in-depth version, SESAP 18 Advanced, are premier educational resources for practicing surgeons and surgery residents. With the next iteration on the horizon, there is still time to take advantage of this incredibly useful tool before it is retired on December 31, 2025.

SESAP 18

The core program offers expanded critiques that provide essential explanations for each of the 665 pertinent questions and all answer options. Users can select from nine content categories based on personal preferences and learning goals, including abdomen, alimentary tract, breast, emergency general surgery, endocrine, legal/ethics, perioperative care, surgical critical care, and trauma.

Use search features to look up content quickly, create customized quizzes, and highlight and save content for future easy reference. 

SESAP 18 Advanced

The advanced modules build on SESAP 18 content and specifically focus on advanced clinical problems involving specialized and nuanced content within complex and emerging topics.

The format and features are similar to SESAP 18, with the addition of special sections entitled “Controversies” that have no single correct answer. The “Controversy Items” provide comparisons with peer responses, and the critiques discuss each response option.

Released in 2023, the SESAP 18 Advanced modules include 332 case-based questions across seven modules including abdomen; alimentary tract; breast; endocrine; melanoma, skin, sarcoma; surgical critical care; and trauma and emergency general surgery. All CME credit for SESAP 18 and SESAP 18 Advanced must be claimed by October 16, 2025. Subscribe today to hone your surgical education.