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A free learning & collaboration community for physicians.

"If there was a Nobel Prize for medical
education, you guys would deserve it."

Collaboration

1,000,000+comments and votes

10,000+Free Learning Resources

Topics

1,000+FREE Orthopaedic Review Topics

QBank

6,600+Free Board Style Questions in modern Qbank

Evidence

5,000+Referenced Journal Articles with 100s of PDFs

Videos

1,300+Educational Presentation and Technique Videos

Cases

2,500+ Shared Cases with ½ million physician votes & comments

Techniques

100+Comprehensive Technique Guides

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Premium Content

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Suggested Virtual Curriculum pathways for different physicians

Medical Students
Residents
PGY5
Fellows
Academic Surgeons
Private Practice
MOC

Evaluate your interest in orthopaedics
Make a strong impression on your sub-internship
Get a head start on your orthopaedic knowledge in preparation for residency

"This truly is a powerful site for all orthopedic professionals. I was just boasting to a medical student today about how easy his orthopedic residency will be if he starts on Orthobullets now. You guys really have a great thing going here!" Orthopedic Resident - USA, 2013

Increase your OITE scores by having access to both Academy SAE questions and Orthobullets Virtual Curriculum questions
Identify your areas of strength and weakness with our monthly diagnostic Milestone exams
Enjoy unlimited access to our study plans, including OITE and CORE Curriculum
Use our topic and technique guide mastery tracking to help guide your learning efforts

"Residents in my program have been using Orthobullets almost exlusively the past few years and have had no difficulty passing the boards" Resident - USA, 5/15/15

Prepare for ABOS Part I with access to AAOS SAE and OB Virtual Curriculum questions
Our monthly Milestone exams can act as a dress rehearsal for ABOS Part I
Transition from CORE Curriculum to ABOS Part I 215-Day Study Plan – a proven method to prepare for ABOS Part I
Use our topic & technique tracking to make sure you've covered and mastered all the reequired topics and procedural skills you'd like to acquire prior to graduation

"Orthobullets is the single reason I passed part I ABOS… thank you so much..." Orthopaedic Surgeon, USA, 9/06/14

Create custom subspecialty exams, using Orthobullets and SAE questions
Choose our annual 365-Day study plan to guide your learning
Master all your subspecialty procedures using technique guides and Skillmaster

"If there was a Nobel Prize for medical students education, you guys would deserve it." Fellow - USA, 9/6/13

Use our 5000 question Qbank to prepare for the maintenance of certification exam, which includes both AAOS SAE and Orthobullets questions
Stay up-to-date on the literature and be in sync with your residents using CORE
Earn 100% of your Category 1 PRA MOC and SAE credits

"Orthobullets is the best, most effective continuing education tool I had use in my 10 year career as an academic orthopedic surgeon." Orthopaedic Surgeon, USA, 10/31/13

Use our 5000 question Qbank to prepare for the maintenance of certification exam, which includes both AAOS SAE and Orthobullets questions
Use our MOC Study plans to guide your study efforts
Simply use our annual CORE Curriculum to stay on top of the literature
Earn 100% of your Category 1 PRA MOC and SAE credits

"This website is the most valuable learning tool I have found. I started using it in preparation for the MOC in 2015. I am going to sign up for a review course every year as it is such a great resource." Orthopaedic Surgeon, USA, 8/3/14

Pass your MOC stress-free!
Earn 100% of CME and SAE Credits with our MOC study plans
Stay up-to-date with the latest scientific articles

"You've actually made recerting rewarding and somewhat enjoyable." Orthopaedic Surgeon, USA, 1/4/14

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Peak

A Personalized Adaptive Learning System added to the premium content of Virtual Curriculum.

“This is genius.”
“It lets me know where I am at and what I have yet to review.”

Your personal learning gps

Peak guides you to the most relevant content based on your learning needs and helps you engage with content more effectively with tools like highlighting and personal notes. Tracking tools monitor your progress and help you learn more efficiently by decreasing redundancy in the future. Our Bullets* App syncs with Peak so you can learn in small blocks of time in the hospital when you might otherwise not study.

How peak helps you learn more efficiently

Click the PEAK Tracker below to see how you rate mastery of different learning activities.

20%

Topic
2|0
12%

Questions
0|0
5%

Evidence
0|0
50%

Cases
0|0
12%

Videos
0|0
24%

Skill Tasks
2|1
10%

Self Mastery
15|212
1.5

Faculty
13|57

REVIEW TOPICS

Memorizing topics lays the foundation of knowledge needed to eventually apply knowledge and think critically. Learning topics is best accomplished in layers. As a junior resident you should focus on presentation and nonoperative treatment. As a senior resident you should focus more on operative treatment, techniques, and complications.

Target Content: Orthobullets Review Topics. Does not include Technique Guides or Approaches, as that is captured under the Skill component of Peak.

Mastery Trigger: Click on the Topic Selfmastery wheel to advance based on the scale below.
- 0
  
  0%
  
  Have never seen topic
- 20
  
  20%
  
  Skimmed the topic briefly once
- 40
  
  40%
  
  Skimmed the topic briefly and skimmed 50% of questions once
- 60
  
  60%
  
  Read entire topic and did all questions once
- 80
  
  80%
  
  Read entire topic and did all questions at least twice
- 100
  
  100%
  
  Presented topic to other residents or taught at grand rounds
QUESTIONS

Questions are a "poor-mans" version of case-based learning, which is the best way to learn to apply medical knowledge, evidence, and to think critically. Questions work best in repetition, where you see the question over and over again, going deeper into the explanation and references.

Target Content: Orthobullets and AAOS SAE Questions. We recognize some of the AAOS SAE questions are dated and need improvement. However, we still think they should be taken as they included valuable tested concepts. Even if the correct answer is outdated, it is important to know that historically a condition was treated differently - a question can still be a great educational tool even though it is a "bad question" from a diagnostic perspective.

Mastery Trigger: Click on Selfmastery wheel for EACH OB and SAE Question associated with the topic to advance based on scale below
- 0
  
  N/A
  
  Have never seen question.
- 20
  
  N/A
  
  Got question incorrect. Therefore you are at 20% for trying. Do the question at a later date and get it correct to advance to 40%.
- 40
  
  N/A
  
  Got question correct. Therefore, you are at 40%. Now highlight the key tested concept in the explanation and highlight the key clinical findings in the conclusion of the referenced article abstracts to advance to 60%.
- 60
  
  N/A
  
  Got question correct and read the explanation and conclusion of the abstracts. Therefore, you are at 60%. Answer the question correctly 3 times in a row to advance to 80%.
- 80
  
  N/A
  
  Got question correct more than 3 times in a row in the last 60 days. Therefore, you are at 80%. Now type in the correct response and select it from the drop down menu to advance to 100%.
- 100
  
  N/A
  
  Have mastered question.
EVIDENCE

In today's world of medicine, having a firm grasp of the evidence is essential to take good care of patients. Unfortunately, there is a "sea" of evidence, and it can be difficult and time-consuming to choose what is important to read. Orthobullets has done the hard work of filtering for the evidence of which you need to be aware.

Target Content: Only Orthobullets "Tested" articles count as target content. "Tested Articles" represent a small subset of all the articles and have met specific Orthobullets inclusion criteria.

Mastery Trigger: Click on the Selfmastery wheel for EACH "Tested" article to advance based on scale below.
- 0
  
  0%
  
  Have never seen this article, and therefore you are at <b>0%</b>. Now, read the Conclusion of the Abstract and highlight or note something important to advance to 20%.
- 20
  
  20%
  
  Did read the conclusion of Abstract & Bullets and highlighted some parts of it. Therefore, you are at <b>20%</b>. Now read the Abstract itself and make some highlights there to advance to 40%.
- 40
  
  40%
  
  Read all sections of abstract carefuly.
- 60
  
  60%
  
  Read full article briefly with focus on Discussion and Conclusion.
- 80
  
  80%
  
  Read full article carefully and reviewed References.
- 100
  
  100%
  
  Presented article at journal club
TEACHING CASES

Teaching cases are the "cadillac" of learning to apply medical knowledge, the latest evidence, and think critically. They are important because they allow residents to make decisions in an algorithmic pathway - e.g., so you got an MRI in the ER and the patient is alert and oriented, so what is your next step in management?

Target Content: Currently all cases linked to a topic count as target cases. Shortly, target cases will only include specific "core" cases that have been through a specific editorial process and have a certain teaching objective.

Mastery Trigger: Vote on case polls AND add supporting evidence via Pubmed Insert Evidence Tool.
- 0
  
  0%
  
  Shows the % of polls that you have voted on and added supporting evidence.
- 20
  
  20%
  
  Shows the % of polls that you have voted on and added supporting evidence.
- 40
  
  40%
  
  Shows the % of polls that you have voted on and added supporting evidence.
- 60
  
  60%
  
  Shows the % of polls that you have voted on and added supporting evidence.
- 80
  
  80%
  
  Shows the % of polls that you have voted on and added supporting evidence.
- 100
  
  100%
  
  Shows the % of polls that you have voted on and added supporting evidence.
VIDEOS

While you can learn a lot by reading on your own, didactic lectures from experts always highlights what is most relevant in clinical practice. A series of Core Videos will help residents take what they are reading, and see the relevance in clinical practive.

Target Content: Currently all videos linked to a topic count in this counter. Shortly, only "Core Videos" that have a certain educational value and quality control will count in this counter.

Mastery Trigger: Click on the Video Selfmastery wheel to advance based on the scale below.
- 0
  
  0%
  
  Have never seen video
- 20
  
  20%
  
  Skimmed parts of video
- 40
  
  40%
  
  Skimmed most of video
- 60
  
  60%
  
  Watched video start to finish
- 80
  
  80%
  
  Watched video start to finish twice
- 100
  
  100%
  
  Watched video with others and discussed
SKILL PREPARATION TASKS

You can't expect to do any surgical skill, for instance cutting the femoral neck in a THA, unless you have done your homework. Prepare for surgical skills by reading the basic outline of the skill steps watching select videos, and reading key articles and portions of textbook chapters. Take notes and highlight so you don't forget what you learned.

Target Content: Orthobullets has carefully created a series of tasks that we believe a resident should complete in preparation for a skill. They include:
1) STEPS - reading the Orthobullets "Steps" of a skill that have been created by orthobullets. Orthobullets Techniques are largerly incomplete at this time, and will see rapid improvement as they are updated by experts in the field over the coming months.

Mastery Trigger: Check the "Mark Skill as Read" under each Step.
2) VIDEOS - only Orthobullets Technique Videos count. Currently we only have videos for one procedure posted. We plan on releasing 1-2 Technique Videos per month.

Mastery Trigger: Click on Video Selfmastery Tool of Skill Technique Video per the scale listed above under videos.
3) ARTICLES - we will continue to select several articles, which may be a scientific articles or a section of a Technique textbook, which we feel should be read prior to attempting to do a surgical skill. We will do our best to make sure a PDF is provided.

Mastery Trigger: Click on the Article Selfmastery Tool on Skill Articles per the scale listed above under articles.
- 0
  
  0%
  
  Number represents % of total requred Skill Tasks completed.
- 20
  
  20%
  
  Number represents % of total requred Skill Tasks completed.
- 40
  
  40%
  
  Number represents % of total requred Skill Tasks completed.
- 60
  
  60%
  
  Number represents % of total requred Skill Tasks completed.
- 80
  
  80%
  
  Number represents % of total requred Skill Tasks completed.
- 100
  
  100%
  
  Number represents % of total requred Skill Tasks completed.
SKILL SELFMASTERY

We know surgeons can teach themselves most surgical skills by passive observation and trying on their own. Our selfmastery system allows residents to track their selfmastery on each step of a skill. Highlighting and taking notes allows residents to document what they learned for future reference.

Target Content: This includes the Orthobullets "Steps" for each Skill. For each of these "Steps" the surgeon rates his Self-mastery on the scale listed below.

Mastery Trigger: Click on the Step Selfmastery Tool to advanced based on the scale below.
- 0
  
  0%
  
  Have never seen surgical "Step" performed.
- 20
  
  20%
  
  Watched surgical "Step" but not involved.
- 40
  
  40%
  
  Watched surgical "Step" and partially invovled (held retractor).
- 60
  
  60%
  
  Did surgical "Step" start to finish under close supervision.
- 80
  
  80%
  
  Did surgical "Step" independently and comfortably without supervision.
- 100
  
  100%
  
  Tried to teach surgical "Step" to another surgeon.
FACULTY ENGAGEMENT & FEEDBACK

Just like you need a "spotter" when benching 20lbs more than ever before, you need to engage faculty so they can "spot" you on your "sweet spot" skills - the skills you can't quite master on your own. By focusing faculty teaching effort on your target "sweet spot" skills, we believe we can greatly accelerate how you move up the learning curve.

Target Content: A "sweet spot" skill is one in which the resident has completed all the prerequisite skills (skill of easier complexity level), has completed on the Preparatory Tasks, and has Self-Mastered to 80%. In our opinion, only then is a resident ready to engage a faculy and have the most productive teaching/learning experience in the OR.

Mastery Trigger: Faculty MSE Level increase once faculty or resident assess you as a good or excellent on MSE.
SKILL COMPLEXITY LEVEL: Our surgical Skills, are broken down into 5 levels of complexity and correlate with the ACGME milestone levels. A resident should reach a Level 4 by the time he graduates from residency. He should have reached a Level 5 by the time he has completed his fellowship.
- L1 Graded as good or excellent on ACGME Level 1 skills.
- L2 Graded as good or excellent on ACGME Level 2 skills.
- L3 Graded as good or excellent on ACGME Level 3 skills.
- L4 Graded as good or excellent on ACGME Level 4 skills.
- L5 Graded as good or excellent on ACGME Level 5 skills.

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“The single greatest innovation to orthopaedic residency training in the last decade.”

PASS

A teaching, evaluation,
and reporting platform for academic institutions.

Improve resident training.
Make ACGME reporting objective, transparent, and easy

Teach

Evaluate

Report

Analytics to improve Physician Development

Medical Knowledge

Objective and Transparent ACGME Medical Knowledge Levels through testing, not faculty evaluation.
Patient Care

A competency based surgical skill training & evaluations system that is mobile, user-friendly, and improved technical training.
Professionalism & Rotation Evaluations

Accurate ACGME levels AND summative faculty feedback the residents want.

Medical Knowledge

Implement a structured curriculum including daily emails reviewing 500+ topics, daily key scientific articles, and monthly diagnostic Milestone exams.
Patient Care

Track your residents though a Technique Guides & Skillmaster of 150+ procedures with videos, articles, quizzes and self-mastery tracking.
Professionalism & Rotation Evaluations

Give resident summative faculty feedback on the ACGME core competencies at the end of each rotation using a modern mobile platform.

Medical Knowledge

Generate ACGME Medical Knowledge levels through testing rather than time-consuming and expensive faculty evaluations.
Patient Care

Competency-based Point-of-Care Competency-based Point-of-Care Evaluations for specific skills with well-defined educational objections.
Professionalism & Rotation Evaluations

New end-of-rotation summative evaluations that collect ACGME levels AND subjective feedback.

Medical Knowledge

Have your CCC review ACGME Medical Knowledge levels virtually with the ability to override values based on other sources of performance data.
Patient Care

ACGME Patient Care Levels derived from cumulative Point-of-Care Grades on a 1000+ competency-based skill evaluations.
Professionalism & Rotation Evaluations

Clearly identify and document residents who have deficiencies. Track and sort subjective comments.

Medical Knowledge

Run analytics on your residents individually or as a whole, compare them to national data, and implement improvement plans.
Patient Care

Identify surgical skill deficiencies and adjust rotations schedule to ensure all residents meet their ACGME Patient Care Skills by graduation.
Professionalism & Rotation Evaluations

Identify areas of improvement and track improvement. Track and sort subjective comments from comments by faculty in multiple locations.

How PASS is a win for everyone on the team

Residents
Chief Residents
Fellows
Program Coordinators
Program Directors
Academic Faculty
Chairman

Increase your OITE scores and pass the boards without stress by utilizing our Qbank of AAOS SAE questions and OB question!
Identify your areas of strength with our monthly diagnostic Milestone Exams.
Get unlimited access to study plans, including OITE, ABOS, and CORE Curriculum.
Enhance your operative skills through Self Mastery Skillmaster tracker, and Technique Guide.
Your performance data is safely gathered and stored for program use only.

"I applaud your site and what you have been able to build for orthopaedic review. To say you have filled a void in resident education would be an understatement." Orthopedic Resident - USA

Track residents' Medical Knowledge progress through monthly diagnostic Milestone exams and other custom exams.
Sync your program's lecture schedule with the Orthobullets 365-Day Core Curriculum.
Ensure all residents meet their ACGME target levels for Patient Care.
Help your program with ACGME Biannual reports by ensuring End-of-Rotation Professionalism evaluations are complete.

"I truly appreciate your website, as a former academic chief for my residency, we utilized your program as the backbone for daily readings and questions. As a result we scored >95% on average for the OITE as a residency." Chief Resident - USA

Create subspecialty exams from a pool of 5000 orthobullets and AAOS SAE questions.
Strengthen your subspecialty knowledge and stay current on the literature through our annual fellowship-specific Subspecialty Study Plans.
Master your subspecialty operative skills through topics, videos, quizzes, Technique Guide and Skillmaster.

"Fantastic Resource. State of the art for a specialty. Cases, videos, tests, info, etc. Congratulations, you are a credit to your guild. I doubt if other specialties have such a fine site." Physician - USA

Ensure all residents are on track for Medical Knowledge, Patient Care, and Professionalism ACGME milestones.
Take the pain out of ACGME reporting. Leverage easy-to-use ACGME reporting functionality, including automated end-of-rotation summative evaluations for ACGME Milestones (MK, PC, and Prof.).
Save hours in CCC meetings!

"For program coordinators it is like a dream." Program Coordinator - USA

Make sure OITE scores stay high and all residents pass ABOS Part 1.
Generate ACGME Medical Knowledge levels through testing data, rather than through expensive and inefficient faculty evaluations.
Make sure residents reach their ACGME Patient Target levels through our competency-based skill tracking and evaluation system.
Achieve 90% evaluation compliance at 60 days with our new mobile Evalmaster app.
Easily create ACGME Biannual Milestone reports and summative end-of-rotation evaluations for all ACGME core competencies - saving hours in CCC meetings!

"Our OITE program rank increased from the 12^th to 50^th percentile" Program Director - USA

Enhance and align your medical knowledge training with our Core Curriculum and stay on the same page as your residents.
Save your CCC team 120+ FTE hours doing ACGME evaluations via our automated platform.
Ensure a higher quality of care in the OR by identifying which residents are ready for advanced procedures.

"I seriously can't believe my attendings are actually doing the evals. Did a patellar tendon repair, and management and I never even mentioned this to him, and yet he filled out the evaluation already! So exciting!" Academic Faculty - USA

Make sure all your residents pass the boards.
Make sure all your residents gain the surgical skills needed upon graduation.
Utilize a transparent skill tracking system that demonstrates residents are developing surgical skills and staying in the “safe zone” to ensure patient safety.
Increase faculty engagement by streamlining evaluations.
Save FTE hours across your entire team when generating ACGME Biannual reports.

"For a faculty to know what related surgical skills a residents has completed satisfactory prior to a case is a huge benefit for the surgeon." Chairman - USA

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A free learning & collaboration community for physicians.

Topics

QBank

Evidence

Videos

Cases

Techniques

Explore our recently updated free Orthopaedics content

Premium Content

Partner Content

Suggested Virtual Curriculum pathways for different physicians

"This truly is a powerful site for all orthopedic professionals. I was just boasting to a medical student today about how easy his orthopedic residency will be if he starts on Orthobullets now. You guys really have a great thing going here!" Orthopedic Resident - USA, 2013

"Residents in my program have been using Orthobullets almost exlusively the past few years and have had no difficulty passing the boards" Resident - USA, 5/15/15

"Orthobullets is the single reason I passed part I ABOS… thank you so much..." Orthopaedic Surgeon, USA, 9/06/14

"If there was a Nobel Prize for medical students education, you guys would deserve it." Fellow - USA, 9/6/13

"Orthobullets is the best, most effective continuing education tool I had use in my 10 year career as an academic orthopedic surgeon." Orthopaedic Surgeon, USA, 10/31/13

"This website is the most valuable learning tool I have found. I started using it in preparation for the MOC in 2015. I am going to sign up for a review course every year as it is such a great resource." Orthopaedic Surgeon, USA, 8/3/14

"You've actually made recerting rewarding and somewhat enjoyable." Orthopaedic Surgeon, USA, 1/4/14

Peak

“This is genius.” “It lets me know where I am at and what I have yet to review.”

How peak helps you learn more efficiently

REVIEW TOPICS

QUESTIONS

EVIDENCE

TEACHING CASES

VIDEOS

SKILL PREPARATION TASKS

SKILL SELFMASTERY

FACULTY ENGAGEMENT & FEEDBACK

“The single greatest innovation to orthopaedic residency training in the last decade.”

PASS

Improve resident training. Make ACGME reporting objective, transparent, and easy

Medical Knowledge

Patient Care

Professionalism & Rotation Evaluations

Medical Knowledge

Patient Care

Professionalism & Rotation Evaluations

Medical Knowledge

Patient Care

Professionalism & Rotation Evaluations

Medical Knowledge

Patient Care

Professionalism & Rotation Evaluations

Medical Knowledge

Patient Care

Professionalism & Rotation Evaluations

How PASS is a win for everyone on the team

"I applaud your site and what you have been able to build for orthopaedic review. To say you have filled a void in resident education would be an understatement." Orthopedic Resident - USA

"I truly appreciate your website, as a former academic chief for my residency, we utilized your program as the backbone for daily readings and questions. As a result we scored >95% on average for the OITE as a residency." Chief Resident - USA

"Fantastic Resource. State of the art for a specialty. Cases, videos, tests, info, etc. Congratulations, you are a credit to your guild. I doubt if other specialties have such a fine site." Physician - USA

"For program coordinators it is like a dream." Program Coordinator - USA

"Our OITE program rank increased from the 12th to 50th percentile" Program Director - USA

"I seriously can't believe my attendings are actually doing the evals. Did a patellar tendon repair, and management and I never even mentioned this to him, and yet he filled out the evaluation already! So exciting!" Academic Faculty - USA

"For a faculty to know what related surgical skills a residents has completed satisfactory prior to a case is a huge benefit for the surgeon." Chairman - USA

“This is genius.”
“It lets me know where I am at and what I have yet to review.”

Improve resident training.
Make ACGME reporting objective, transparent, and easy

"Our OITE program rank increased from the 12^th to 50^th percentile" Program Director - USA