Assessment in Critical Care and Pulmonology Self-Education
and
Evaluation
of Knowledge
for Critical Care Medicine and Pulmonary Medicine  ACCP-SEEK is designed to stimulate and challenge consumers' clinical thought processes regarding recall, interpretation, and problem-solving skills. The case-based questions contain histories, lab results, and images, and provide education concerning current diagnostic and treatment strategies. Each volume contains 75% new questions, answers, and rationales, in addition to selections from the previous volume considered by the editors to be the best-written items. The rationales provide thorough explanations and reasoning for the correct and incorrect answers. ACCP-SEEK is used most commonly as an invaluable study tool for physicians interested in certifying and recertifying in pulmonary and critical care specialties.
Goals
The goals of the ACCP-SEEK program are the following:
- Provide a self-assessment program for practicing specialists in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine designed to reinforce training and experience, disseminate important new knowledge in the field, and identify areas of strengths and weaknesses within specific areas of disease and/or procedural knowledge.
- Assist practicing specialists and individuals in training with preparation for certification and recertification examinations sponsored by the medical specialty board.
Objectives:
By completing the questions and reviewing the rationale, participants should be able to:
- Facilitate self-directed learning efforts targeting content areas from the pulmonary medicine or critical care medicine board examination.
- Compare their responses to the case-based questions in pulmonary and critical care medicine with those of the authors.
- Appraise management differences in patient cases depicted in the questions through utilization of the provided rationale.
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