McGraw-Hill Professional, a US-based provider of information resources for the scientific and medical communities, has launched AccessAnesthesiology (http://www.accessanesthesiology.com), an online resource dedicated solely to pain management, critical care and perioperative medicine. The learning website seeks to give anesthesiology residents a suite of detailed reference materials and multimedia, educators a powerful tool for managing workflows, and professionals an in-depth resource for maintaining certification.
In a bid to continue with the innovations begun with McGraw-Hill's Access online medical and scientific resources, AccessAnesthesiology provides searchable, full-text versions of several McGraw-Hill references. These include David Longnecker's Anesthesiology, G. Edward Morgan, Jr.'s Lange Clinical Anesthesiology, and Admir Hadzic's NYSORA Textbook of Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Management. In addition, the site features procedural videos, with a basic skills series from the authors of Management of the Difficult and Failed Airway, and ultrasound videos prepared by members of AccessAnesthesiology's editorial board.
The site also includes the Custom Curriculum, a functionality that enables anesthesiology programme directors to create and assign activities, as well as track and monitor resident progress. With this functionality, anesthesiology programmes map AccessAnesthesiology content and functionalities to their own educational structure, creating a site that matches their specific needs.
For program directors, AccessAnesthesiology offers detailed assignment monitoring, student assessment tests and tools and robust reports, as well as an ability to share assignment designs with other programmes. For residents, the Custom Curriculum provides an educational tool that allows them to view the available activities from their programme director and monitor their own individual progress.
