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EdgeMed Surgery is a West African general surgery exam-prep platform built alongside EdgeMed EM and running on the same engine. It currently supports two product tracks: Surgery Primaries (the Year 1–2 Applied Basic Sciences hurdle — anatomy, physiology, pathology, microbiology, biochemistry adapted for the surgical trainee) and Surgery Membership (the Year 3–5 clinical / applied exam).

Each track gives you a high-volume MCQ bank anchored to Bailey & Love, Sabiston, and Browse’s, plus the AMBOSS-style Surgery Pearls blog for high-yield recognition patterns with a Ghana Moat (typhoid perforation, amoebic liver abscess, sickle cell peri-op, Buruli ulcer, tropical pyomyositis, keloid biology — the topics UK/US banks skip) and tutor/test modes for paced revision.

General surgery residents preparing for the GCPS Membership / WACS Fellowship exams across Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and the wider West African surgical community. Content is also useful for early trainees preparing for MRCS Part A and Part B, and for consultants supervising residents who want a Ghana-context revision reference.

Case vignettes are anchored to the hospitals you actually train in — Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Komfo Anokye, Ridge, Cape Coast Teaching, Effia-Nkwanta Regional, 37 Military, Tamale Teaching — not translated from Boston or Birmingham.

Surgery Primaries — the Year 1–2 Applied Basic Sciences hurdle. Anatomy (Snell, Grant’s), Physiology (Ganong), Pathology (Robbins), Microbiology (Murray), Biochemistry, and applied Pharmacology all adapted for the surgical trainee. 1,320 MCQs live, anchored to Bailey & Love (Basic Sciences chapters) and Sabiston (Basic Sciences chapters), with 15 Applied-Anatomy / Applied-Physiology pearls covering the classical Primaries patterns you actually get pimped on.

Surgery Membership — the Year 3–5 clinical / applied exam. 2,110 MCQs anchored to Bailey & Love 28th, Sabiston 21st, and Browse’s Introduction to the Symptoms & Signs of Surgical Disease 6th, with 15 Membership pearls covering the tropical / Ghana-context topics UK/US banks skip.

Surgery Fellowship (viva scenarios + SAQ prompts + dissertation toolkit) is in the roadmap alongside EM Fellowship — not live yet.

Sign up with just an email and password — no credit card required. You get 10 free MCQs lifetime across any track to evaluate the question quality and Ghana-context framing. Anonymous visitors get 5 preview questions before the signup wall.

After your 10 free MCQs, you pick a plan to keep practising.

USD is the canonical price. We auto-convert to GHS at today’s exchange rate (Frankfurter API + small markup to cover the bank’s TT spread and Paystack fees) for users in Ghana, updated every 24 hours.

Surgery Primaries starts from $60 / 3 months. Surgery Membership from $105. Surgery Bundle (Primaries + Membership) from $130 / 3 months or $450 / year, saving ~15% vs buying the two tracks separately. A monthly Surgery Bundle option at $49.95 is available with a 7-day free trial. See /surgery/bundle/pricing for all Surgery tiers and durations.

Group SKUs for surgical training cohorts (10-seat institutional plans) are on the roadmap alongside EdgeMed EM’s existing Group Annual product — email support@edgemedem.com if you’re a Head of Department planning cohort access.

All payments are processed by Paystack, a Pan-African payment processor used by major Ghanaian platforms. You can pay with:

• Mobile Money — MTN, Telecel, AT
• Card — Visa, Mastercard, Verve
• Apple Pay — on supported devices coming soon

You can pay in GHS or USD. Card payments work internationally.

Yes — 7-day money-back guarantee for first-time subscribers. Try EdgeMed for a full week. If it doesn’t help your exam preparation, email support@edgemedem.com and we’ll refund every cedi or cent within 5 business days. No questions asked.

For renewals, a 24-hour refund window applies after the auto-renew charge — cancel anytime from /account to avoid surprise renewals. Full details in our Refund Policy.

Your access lasts the full duration of the plan you bought (3 months, 6 months, or 1 year), measured from the day of payment. If you renew before the previous term ends, the new term extends from your existing end date — you don’t lose any days.

You’ll receive an email receipt at purchase showing your exact expiry date, and reminders in your account dashboard as renewal approaches.

Individual plans are for one person. If you want to share with colleagues, the Group Annual plan ($2,900 for 10 seats) is purpose-built for that — one owner buys, then invites 9 colleagues by email and each gets their own login, progress tracking, and personal dashboard.

Sharing a single login is a violation of our terms and will result in the account being suspended.

Surgery Primaries (Applied Basic Sciences) — Snell’s Clinical Anatomy and Grant’s Atlas for anatomy, Ganong’s Review of Medical Physiology, Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease, Murray’s Medical Microbiology, plus the Basic Sciences chapters of Bailey & Love 28th and Sabiston 21st that surgical residents actually get pimped from.

Surgery Membership (Clinical / Applied) — Bailey & Love’s Short Practice of Surgery 28th ed, Sabiston Textbook of Surgery 21st ed, and Browse’s Introduction to the Symptoms & Signs of Surgical Disease 6th ed. Selective use of Kirk’s Basic Surgical Techniques for procedural content and WACS / GCPS Membership past-paper themes for question-style calibration.

Surgery Pearls add a Ghana Moat layer: typhoid perforation, amoebic liver abscess, sickle-cell peri-op, Buruli ulcer (WHO classification), tropical pyomyositis, keloid biology, sigmoid volvulus in the West African adult, obstructed groin hernia, hepatic hydatid disease, and locally-advanced breast cancer — topics UK/US question banks routinely skip.

Every Surgery Pearl is written to a named current guideline or society reference for management. Examples cited by name in the current pearls set:

• WHO 2012 / 2019 (Buruli ulcer classification and antibiotic regimens)
• IDSA / IWGDF 2023 (diabetic foot infection grading)
• Society for Vascular Surgery WIfI 2014 (threatened-limb staging)
• ATLS 10th ed (chest trauma thoracostomy triggers, 1500 mL / 200 mL·h thresholds)
• CRASH-2 (tranexamic acid within 3 hours)
• NICE guidance on refeeding syndrome (start ≤ 10 kcal/kg/day)
• Boey score (peptic ulcer perforation risk stratification)
• Maastricht VI / Toronto Consensus (H. pylori eradication regimens)
• ISUP Vancouver 2005 on gastric malignancy classification

When evidence shifts, we update the Pearls (e.g. bismuth-based quadruple therapy first-line for H. pylori where clarithromycin resistance is high, replacing legacy triple therapy).

Case vignettes are anchored to the hospitals you rotate through — Korle Bu, Komfo Anokye, Ridge, Cape Coast Teaching, Effia-Nkwanta Regional, 37 Military, UGMC, Tamale Teaching — not translated from a UK textbook. Ghanaian first names appear in case stems for relatability.

Tropical surgery is integrated across the bank, not bolted on: typhoid perforation and its Boey-style triage, amoebic liver abscess with PAIR indications, sickle-cell peri-operative transfusion targets, Buruli ulcer surgical debridement staging, tropical pyomyositis in the HIV-positive patient, sigmoid volvulus and sigmoidoscopic detorsion, obstructed inguinal / femoral hernia, hepatic hydatid disease, and locally-advanced breast cancer at Ghanaian presentation stage.

Resource-limited management notes are explicit: what a district hospital can do without on-site CT, without immediate cell saver, without endovascular capability. Autotransfusion of shed pleural blood is discussed. Mesh-vs-primary hernia repair in a contaminated field is discussed. Level of amputation in the absence of vascular reconstruction is discussed. The pearls do not assume the teaching-hospital toolkit is universal.

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Yes — the entire platform is built mobile-first. Most Ghanaian users practise on their phone during commutes and ward downtime. Test mode, Tutor mode, Pearls, Library, and your /account dashboard all work on phones, tablets, and desktops with no app install needed. Just bookmark edgemedem.com on your home screen.

A receipt email is sent automatically the moment your payment is confirmed. It includes your plan, amount, expiry date, and a Paystack reference number for support enquiries. If you need a formal invoice on EdgeMed Education Ltd letterhead (e.g. for institutional reimbursement), email support@edgemedem.com with your payment reference and we’ll send one within 24 hours.

Yes — every question has a 🚩 Mark for review button on the reveal screen and on Test result rows. Click it to flag a question; click again to unflag. Your marked-count shows on /account, and you can drill only your marked questions via the Custom test builder by selecting the “Marked” pool.

Designed for the “I want to revisit this before the exam” reflex — a habit every serious candidate develops.

Your /account dashboard has a 🎯 Focus areas widget that surfaces your three weakest topics as soon as you’ve answered at least 5 questions in any topic. Each card shows your accuracy and a one-click “Drill 10 more” button that drops you straight into a focused 10-question test on that weak spot.

Deeper analytics live at /account/performance: a per-topic heatmap (red → amber → green), strengths column, and a heuristic predicted-pass score based on your bank coverage and accuracy trend. Updated in real time as you practise.

Yes — the 🔧 Custom link in the sub-nav opens the Custom test builder. Filter by:

• Topic — any of the 60+ topic tags, or all topics
• Pool — All / Unused (never seen) / Incorrect (you got wrong before) / 🚩 Marked (you flagged)
• High-yield only — restrict to flagged high-yield questions
• Count — 5, 10, 20, 40, or 60 questions per test

Click Start and you’re inside the same timed test mode with the same scoring — just on the slice you chose. Useful for last-week review (Marked + Incorrect) or covering your blind spots (Unused on weak topics).

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We do not sell or rent your data, ever. Full details including processor list, retention windows, and your rights are in our Privacy Policy. For terms of use see our Terms of Service.

EdgeMed is built by EdgeMed Education Ltd, a Ghana- registered company founded by an EM physician based in Accra. The team now includes content-reviewer consultants in both Emergency Medicine and General Surgery, plus practising Ghanaian clinicians who sense-check content for local relevance.

Every Surgery question is AI-drafted and then human-reviewed by a General Surgery consultant — and every Surgery Pearl is written against Bailey & Love, Sabiston, or Browse’s with a named current guideline — before it reaches the bank.

You can reach the team directly by replying to any EdgeMed email or by writing to support@edgemedem.com.