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Orthopaedic Surgery faculty/attendings receive Surgical Skills and Professional Behavior Assessment requests from residents. They can choose to receive these requests through email or through text. The assessments take less than 2 minutes to complete, and evaluators can dictate feedback to accompany their numerical evaluations. Faculty do not have a username or password they must remember; they just click on the link they received through email or text and then complete the assessment. ABOS Diplomates who serve as faculty may be able to earn ABOS SAE credits for completing ABOS Surgical Skills Assessments and for participating in the ABOS KSB Learning Module. Learn more about this new opportunity.


Frequently Asked Questions

Your residency program is responsible for identifying you as an evaluator that they would like to have participate in the ABOS KSB Program. Please contact the Orthopaedic Residency Program Director and/or Program Coordinator to be added as an evaluator.

Faculty Reference Sheet

Please contact the residency program coordinator to identify your preferred contact method: text message or email. You will automatically receive two reminder emails if you do not respond to the initial text or email.

Several Program Directors provide hints in this brief video:

External Residency Program Quick Guide

  1. Complete 10 Surgical Skills Assessments
  2. Login to your ABOS Diplomate Dashboard
  3. Click the link on bottom of the left menu: ABOS KSB Learning Module
  4. Enter your information (First Name, Last Name, Email, Residency Program) to validate completion of 10 ABOS KSB Surgical Skills assessments. If denied entry to module, please continue to respond to Surgical Skills assessments by residents until 10 are completed. If denied entry because contact information does not match what your residency program has entered, contact your Program Coordinator to confirm the First Name, Last Name, Email that they have on file for you.
  5. View each of the Educational Videos and read each of the Knowledge Sources
  6. Once complete, please proceed to answer the associated questions by clicking “Start Questions”
  7. Once you complete the assessment with at least 5/8 answered correctly, you will need to complete the attestation to receive your ABOS SAE Certificate (10 ABOS SAE credits valid for 5 years)

To ensure a standard understanding of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery Knowledge, Skills, and Behavior (ABOS KSB) Program and provide expert instruction on how to provide competency-based assessments and valuable formative feedback.

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