Surgical board study tools

Surgical Critical Care

An ICU medication reference covering 270+ drugs and situations — vasoactives, ACLS, sedation, anticoagulation and reversal, antimicrobials, transplant immunosuppression, toxicology and antidotes — filterable by name or by category, alongside 400+ board-style practice questions with instant feedback and an expert tier.

The constraint that shaped it: every table is sourced to its guideline, and the page says so. Dosing reference that cannot be traced back is worse than no reference at all, so the sources are part of the interface rather than a footnote. The deploy script refuses to ship a question bank with invalid items or an answer-length tell — the kind of giveaway that teaches people to game the quiz instead of learning the medicine.

General Surgery Oral Boards

The oral exam is not a multiple-choice test; you are talking to an examiner who pushes back. So this one listens. A day-by-day study calendar runs to the exam date, and 70+ staged cases are answered in your own words rather than picked from a list.

The feedback is examiner-style, and so are the interruptions: no blood available, no interventional radiology, a patient who crashes mid-answer, and the flat “Are you sure?” that makes candidates abandon a correct plan. Those curveballs are the point. The case bank works entirely offline in the browser; the conversational examiner is the only part that needs a model behind it.

Why free

Both are given away. They are also a straightforward demonstration of something we tell clients: a static site with no framework, no tracking and no build pipeline can carry a serious amount of content and stay fast, searchable and cheap to run for years.