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    Features

    Help identify learning gaps, stay current, and gain knowledge.
    What's New

    Updated content, all-new MCQs & exciting new features.
    Exam Prep

    Widely considered the go-to source for ABIM exam preparation.
    Prices

    Various formats available to meet your needs.

     

    MKSAP 18 Features

    Since 1967, the Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP) has been the most trusted resource in lifelong learning for internal medicine physicians and residents. The tradition continues with MKSAP 18.

    What is MKSAP?
    The Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program® (MKSAP) has been the “go-to” resource for board prep and lifelong learning since 1967.

    The Best is Always Better!

    As a comprehensive learning management system, MKSAP 18 remains the standard in excellence for equipping residents and practicing physicians with the information they need to stay current in medicine and prepare for their board exams.

    What makes MKSAP unique?

    Regularly updated content.
    With “New Info Updates,” MKSAP 18 Digital will be regularly updated to reflect practice-changing information, guidelines, and expert recommendations.

    Customized learning.
    Physicians can develop a customized learning strategy with custom quizzes or flashcards, or focus learning on high value care or hospitalist-specific content.

    Board Prep for ACCGME-accredited osteopathic programs.
    MKSAP 18 will help residents in ACGME-accredited osteopathic programs prepare for the ABIM Certification exam.

    Dependable MOC resource.
    Whether for the ABIM’s traditional 10-year MOC exam or the new Knowledge Check-in, practicing physicians can continue to rely on MKSAP to help them develop an effective study strategy while also earning MOC points.

    High-value learning.
    MKSAP offers a value-packed learning management system for one subscription price with no renewal fees and unlimited opportunities to clear your answers. With a comprehensive syllabus text, an extensive Q-bank, hundreds of high value care recommendations, specially highlighted hospitalist content, carefully crafted tables, custom quizzes, progress reports, CME certificates, and more, MKSAP offers the most learning for the most value.

    How MKSAP Is Developed
    Developed by more than 100 experts in the subspecialties of internal medicine, each new edition is completely rewritten every 3 years.

    Content Development Process

    Rewritten, not “revised.”
    Each new MKSAP edition stands on its own, with 100% of the text and MCQs written from scratch to provide you with the freshest information to inform your learning.

    Focused on excellence.
    MKSAP content development is a painstaking three-year process involving multiple stages of writing and rigorous review by our 11 committees and peer reviewers, encompassing more than 200 expert subspecialty physicians.

    Relevant to your needs.
    MKSAP contains clear, evidence-based discussions of core internal medicine concepts to help you deliver the best patient care. Whether you are focused on ambulatory or hospital-based medicine, preparing for your boards, or are a subspecialist trying to keep up-to-date in other subspecialty areas of internal medicine, MKSAP provides a targeted solution for your needs.

    Reader-friendly content.
    MKSAP 18’s summary key points, blue hospital-focused text, high value care recommendations, incisive summary tables, and dynamic 4-color images accentuate the layout, enhancing readability.

    Questions

    1,200 all-new, board-like, self-assessment, MCQs to help you smartly prepare.

    Hospitalist Content

    Easily identify relevant content, prep for the FPHM exam, and more.

    Digital-Only Exclusives

    Practice exam, custom quizzes, ongoing content updates, and more.

    Earn CME & MOC

    Earn same-day, simultaneous CME credit and MOC points through December 2021—it's simple and seamless. Details

     

    What's New in MKSAP 18

    In addition to updated content and all-new MCQs, MKSAP 18 has added exciting new features.

    Digital Highlighting

    Digital Highlighting allows learners to highlight key content and questions, save highlighted information to index, and review in one place. Multiple color options offer an additional way to keep your notes organized. Available with MKSAP 18 Digital or Complete. Watch the tutorial

    Residency Tracker

    A free enhancement specifically for residency programs, the MKSAP 18 Residency Tracker allows program directors to assess the progress and proficiency of their residents as they answer MKSAP 18 MCQs. Learn more

    Adaptive Learning

    MKSAP 18’s digital flashcards, included with MKSAP 18 Complete, have been enhanced with adaptive learning technology to help reinforce knowledge through repeated exposure to incorrectly answered flashcards. Customize your learning based on your areas of need using the MKSAP 18 digital flashcards.

    State-of-the-Art Technology

    MKSAP 18 Digital’s platform is built using the newest technology to run efficiently on the most current operating systems and computers. With a streamlined dashboard and navigation tools, you are able to easily pick up where you left off when logging back in. The Progress Meter provides a visual snapshot of how many questions you have answered in each section.

    Night Mode

    Turn on Night mode in MKSAP 18 Digital to change the luminosity on the screen. Night mode helps to reduce the glare and increase readability in all environments without straining your eyes.

    Preview Content

    View the table of contents and sample Text and Questions pages from each section in MKSAP 18. Preview

     

    Exam Prep

    Your go-to source for ABIM exam preparation.

    More than 94% of Internal Medicine residents use MKSAP to prepare for the Boards. Whether preparing for the ABIM certification exam or the MOC exam, study confidently with MKSAP!

    Tips on how to study with MKSAP 18:

    • Create custom quizzes based on MCQs you've starred, previously answered incorrectly, or by topic/interest area. Use “Study Mode (untimed)” to review questions or “Exam Mode (timed)” to simulate the big day
    • Create a practice exam to assess your exam readiness, using randomly selected questions based on the ABIM blueprint
    • View peer statistics to compare your performance to other physicians
    • Access “Related Text” links from questions you’ve answered incorrectly to strengthen learning
    • Clear your answers as many times as you like to master the MKSAP content
    • Test your interpretive skills and prepare for image-based Boards questions with Virtual Dx
    • Solidify your comprehension of MKSAP by reviewing Board Basics 1 month before exam day
    • As a MKSAP 18 learner, do you want to review even more questions before exam day? Purchase MKSAP Question Booster Packs, sold separately from your MKSAP subscription, to get a boost with up to 900 highly structured, psychometrically validated questions

    Exam Prep Tools included with MKSAP Complete

    Board Basics

    For an intensive ABIM board review, count on the 350-page Board Basics text, filled with crucial internal medicine material you should review right before taking your exam.

    Digital Flashcards

    Review hundreds of quick-study concepts for the Internal Medicine Board Exam in a mobile-friendly format.

    Virtual Dx

    This new edition of the online, image-based self-assessment program provides 400+ questions that are fun and challenging.

     

    MKSAP Money-Back Guarantee

    If you don’t pass the ABIM exam and have answered and submitted all 1200 questions before taking the exam, send us a copy of your notification of failure from the ABIM within 1 year of taking your exam to receive a refund. Details

     

    Pricing & Release Schedule

    MKSAP 18 Complete is now available. 

    MKSAP 18 is available in several flexible formats, allowing you to choose the format that best fits your lifestyle.

    Products Release Pricing
      Part A Part B Resident/Fellow Member Member Nonmember
    MKSAP 18 Print $349 $439 $599
    MKSAP 18 Digital $389 $479 $639
    MKSAP 18 Complete $539 $649 $959
    Included Full Release Complete Subscribers Only Print/Digital Subscribers
    Board Basics FREE $89
    Digital Flashcards FREE
    Virtual Dx FREE

    = Available Now

    = Not Yet Released (Hover over the icon for the release date)

    = Only available to Complete subscribers

    MKSAP 18 Print

    11 concise subspecialty sections and 1,200 associated MCQs.

    Starting at $349
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    MKSAP 18 Digital

    MKSAP 18 delivered in a state-of-the-art format with content updates and other exclusive features.

    Starting at $389
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    MKSAP 18 Complete

    Print and Digital, plus Board Basics e-book, digital flashcards, and Virtual Dx.

    Starting at $539
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    Additional Ordering Information

    ACP staff is working remotely in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, we are not able to process incoming fax messages due to Payment Card Industry (PCI) standards and requirements. If you need to send documents or orders to ACP, please:

    1) Complete the documents without any credit card information. Scan and email these documents to help@acponline.org. 
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    Please be prepared to provide the order details such as number of orders or memberships and the total dollar amount you are approving for charging to the credit card. We are doing our best to continue to provide you with the services you need during this challenging time.

    A MKSAP subscription is for individual use only

    ACP will not set up MKSAP CME/MOC accounts for purchasers of MKSAP sold by unauthorized sellers (e.g., Amazon, e-Bay), with whom ACP has no relationship. We do not honor third party sales.

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    Find out which edition of MKSAP is right for you!

    Refer to the chart below, specifically the Content Launch and Last Content Update dates, to make sure you’re planning to use the most appropriate MKSAP edition to meet your board-prep and continuous learning needs!

    ABIM Certification/Maintenance of Certification Exam Year Appropriate MKSAP Edition Content Launch Last Content Update Digital Access End Date
    2021 MKSAP 18 July 31, 2018 (part A)/December 31, 2018 (part B) March 2021 February 2024*
    2022, 2023, 2024 MKSAP 19 August 31, 2021 (part A)/January 31, 2022 (part B) March 2024 September 2025
    MKSAP 20 Launches February 2025!

    *MKSAP 18 Digital platform available through 2024 to accommodate learners using MKSAP 18 Extension Questions, the CME/MOC for which expires January 2024. MKSAP Extension Questions focus on newer info and practice-changing updates.

    MKSAP 18 - Questions

    Prepare efficiently. Derived from MKSAP’s 11 subspecialty text sections, MKSAP's 1,200 self-assessment questions feature one-best answer clinical scenarios that are relevant to your practice. Plus, MKSAP's questions cover the same topics covered in the ABIM exam blueprint to help you smartly prepare.

    Experience unsurpassed question-writing excellence. A tremendous amount of effort goes into developing MKSAP's board-like multiple-choice questions, written by a team of 11 expert subspecialty committees using the highest standards in question writing. Each MKSAP self-assessment question is pretested and psychometrically validated to ensure it is well-structured, accurate, and fair.

    Study with a variety of MCQ formats. Depending on the format you purchase, MKSAP 18 offers variety in both numbers and types of questions, including traditional self-assessment questions, Bonus Update Questions, Virtual Dx (image-based) Questions, and flashcards (one question/one answer questions).

    Format Total Questions Question Type
    MKSAP 18 Print 1,200 traditional self-assessment questions
    MKSAP 18 Digital 1,400 1200 traditional self-assessment questions + 200 bonus self-assessment questions
    MKSAP 18 Complete 3,000+ 1200 traditional self-assessment questions + 200 bonus self-assessment questions + 400+ Virtual Dx questions + 1200 digital flashcards

    Get the best value with MKSAP 18 Complete!

    MKSAP 18 – Hospitalist Content

    Trust MKSAP 18 to keep you up-to-date in hospital medicine and meet your requirements for the ABIM Focused Practice in Hospital Medicine program.

    MKSAP 18 Features for Hospitalists:

    • Extensive hospitalist content highlighted in blue and labeled with the familiar hospital icon
    • More than 300 MCQs specifically devoted to hospitalist topics
    • Content covering every high-importance FPHM exam blueprint topic
    • Simultaneous CME credits and MOC points
    • Discussion of Direct and Systems Patient Care-Related Safety and Quality Issues, Measurement of Quality Improvement, Principles of the Critically Ill Patient, and Common ICU Conditions among many other hospitalist-related topics
    • Hospital-focused custom quizzes in MKSAP 18 Digital

    MKSAP is a comprehensive learning solution to keep you abreast of important information in the hospital setting and to help you pass the FPHM MOC exam.

    Get the best value with MKSAP 18 Complete!

    MKSAP 18 - Digital-Only Exclusives

    Enjoy using these tried and trusted MKSAP Digital features:

    • Create a practice exam based on the ABIM blueprint to mimic the exam experience
    • Create timed or untimed custom quizzes to assess your learning
    • Monitor your progress and proficiency with online answer sheets
    • Submit for instantaneous CME credits and MOC points
    • Automatically receive regular content updates with the “New Info Updates” feature
    • Get more practice answering questions with 200 MKSAP 18 extension questions (formerly “Update” questions)
    • Use the MKSAP 18 Apps online or offline, from any device, so you never lose your work

    Plus! Try out these new MKSAP 18 Digital Features:

    • NEW! MKSAP 18 Digital Highlighting allows learners to highlight key content and questions, save highlighted information to index, and review in one place. Multiple color options offer an additional way to keep your notes organized. Available with MKSAP 18 Digital or Complete.
    • NEW! MKSAP 18 Residency Tracker helps educators easily assess their residents' progress, create assignments, and customize learning. Available with MKSAP 18 Digital or Complete.
    • NEW! Study smarter with MKSAP 18 Complete’s digital flashcards, now with adaptive learning technology
    • NEW! Search all of MKSAP 18 Digital more efficiently with a new-and-improved search engine

    To take advantage of these MKSAP 18 Digital or Complete exclusives, order MKSAP 18 Digital.

    MKSAP 18 - CME & MOC

    CME credits for MKSAP 18 are available only if you purchase the MKSAP program directly from ACP. CME credits and MOC points cannot be awarded to those purchasers who have purchased the program from unauthorized sellers such as Amazon, eBay, or any other such online retailer.

    MKSAP 18 Part A and Part B, the MKSAP 18 Extension Questions, and Virtual Dx (available as part of MKSAP 18 Complete) have been approved for CME credits and MOC points through the eligibility periods outlined in the charts below.

    Learn more about using MKSAP to earn MOC/CPD internationally by visiting the MKSAP Resource site.

    Order MKSAP 18 Complete Now

    Part A Subspecialty Text Sections
    Available 7/31/18 to 12/31/21*    		 CME/MOC
    Cardiovascular Medicine 30
    Dermatology 16
    Gastroenterology and Hepatology 22
    Hematology and Oncology 33
    Neurology 22
    Rheumatology 22
    Total 145
    Part B Subspecialty Text Sections
    Available 12/31/18 to 12/31/21    		 CME/MOC
    Endocrinology and Metabolism 19
    General Internal Medicine 36
    Infectious Disease 25
    Nephrology 25
    Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine 25
    Total 130
    Virtual Dx CME/MOC
    3/29/19 to 3/29/22 10

    *Original publication date: July 31, 2018; Review/Update date: March 23, 2021; CME Expiration Date: December 31, 2021

    MKSAP 18 Extension Questions CME Schedule

    Earn up to 5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ and/or MOC Points with each set of Extension Questions.

    • Bonus Questions Set 1: 7/31/19 to 7/31/22
    • Bonus Questions Set 2: 1/15/20 to 1/15/23
    • Bonus Questions Set 3: 7/31/20 to 7/31/23
    • Bonus Questions Set 4: 1/15/21 to 1/15/24

    MKSAP 18 CME/MOC Accreditation

    MKSAP 18 is specifically intended for physicians who provide personal, nonsurgical care to adults. Specifically, general internists and primary care physicians, subspecialists who need to remain up-to-date in internal medicine, residents preparing for the Certification Exam in internal medicine, and physicians preparing for the Maintenance of Certification Exam in internal medicine.

    Learning Objectives
    • Close gaps between actual care in your practice and preferred standards of care, based on best evidence.
    • Diagnose disease states that are less common and sometimes overlooked and confusing.
    • Improve management of comorbid conditions that can complicate patient care.
    • Determine when to refer patients for surgery or care by subspecialists.
    • Pass the ABIM Certification Examination and the ABIM Maintenance of Certification Examination.

    CME Accreditation

    The American College of Physicians is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

    The American College of Physicians designates this enduring material, MKSAP 18, for a maximum of 275 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

    The American College of Physicians designates this enduring material, MKSAP 18 Bonus Questions, for a maximum of 20 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

    Successful completion of the CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to the number listed below if medical knowledge MOC points and patient safety MOC credit in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

    Virtual Dx CME/MOC Accreditation

    CME credits and MOC points are available March 29, 2019 to March 29, 2022.

    Virtual Dx is intended for physicians who provide personal, nonsurgical care to adults. Specifically, general internists and primary care physicians, subspecialists who need to remain up-to-date in internal medicine, residents preparing for the Certification Exam in internal medicine, and physicians preparing for the Maintenance of Certification Exam in internal medicine.

    Learning Objectives
    • Recognize visual presentations of common and rare conditions.
    • Increase skills in interpreting image-based findings.
    • Properly diagnose ECG findings.

    CME Accreditation

    The American College of Physicians is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

    The American College of Physicians designates this enduring material, Virtual Dx for a maximum of 10 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

    MKSAP 18 - Board Basics

    Count on Board Basics for an intensive ABIM Board review. Board Basics is derived from MKSAP 18 content, but presented in a succinct digest style with key facts, tables, and test-taking tips to help you pass your Boards. Available as an e-book.

    This ABIM board review digest can help you:

    • Absorb key takeaways on the diagnosis and treatment of the many disease entities discussed in MKSAP 18 in a condensed format
    • Avoid Being Tricked by identifying incorrect answers that masquerade as correct choices
    • Test Yourself with abbreviated case histories to recognize how to “decode” question vignettes
    • Deconstruct complex concepts with Study Tables
    • Learn to interpret visual findings with more than 100 four-color images

    Board Basics ebook is included for free with your purchase of MKSAP 18 Complete. If you are an ACP Resident/Fellow Member purchasing print or digital MKSAP 18 formats, you will receive a free Board Basics ebook. MKSAP 18 Print or Digital subscribers can purchase Board Basics ebook as an enhancement for $89.

    MKSAP 18 - Digital Flashcards

    With 1,200 "byte-sized" questions, the MKSAP 18 digital flashcards help you review for the Internal Medicine Board exams.

    • Each flashcard is linked to an important MKSAP 18 concept
    • Study flashcards to quickly and easily reinforce learning of question concepts
    • Mobile-friendly format allows you to study on-the-go
    • Mark incorrect answers and try them again later

    New for MKSAP 18! Let our new adaptive learning technology strengthen your learning with re-exposure to flashcards you’ve answered incorrectly.

    For free access to the MKSAP 18 Digital Flashcards, order MKSAP 18 Complete.

    MKSAP 18 - Virtual Dx

    This new edition of the online, image-based self-assessment program is both fun and challenging.

    • Quiz yourself with over 400 high-resolution images in 11 major categories spanning internal medicine and the subspecialties
    • Useful for Board prep or to gauge the strength of your visual diagnostic skills
    • Zoom in for more detail, choose your best answer, find out if you’re correct and where you stand among your peers
    • Earn up to 10 PRA Category 1 CME credits and 10 MOC points

    To get free access to Virtual Dx, order MKSAP 18 Complete.

    MKSAP - Guarantee

    MKSAP is designed with our learners’ needs in mind – and top among these needs is engaging our subscribers in lifelong learning, including preparation for exam day. If, however, you do not pass your ABIM Certification Examination or Recertification Examination after you have prepared for your test with MKSAP’s focused syllabus and rigorously  developed multiple-choice questions, we will send you a full refund on your purchase of MKSAP.*

    *To qualify for the refund, you must verify use of MKSAP PRIOR TO TAKING YOUR Certification or Recertification EXAM by meeting the following requirements:

    • Completion of 100% of MKSAP’s 1200 self-assessment questions
    • Scoring at least 50% for each of MKSAP’s 11 sections to qualify for CME submission
    • Successful CME submission for all 11 MKSAP sections. (To submit for CME, follow the instructions included on the CME/MOC/CPD page of MKSAP Digital or Complete and submit your paper answersheet included in MKSAP Print.)

    Please note that if you submit for CME after the date of your Certification/Recertification examination, you are not eligible for a refund.

    Subscribers who meet the qualifications described above should send a copy of their letter from the ABIM notifying them of failure within 1 year of your examination to:

    MKSAP Guarantee
    attn.: Kim Kerns
    American College of Physicians
    190 N. Independence Mall West
    Philadelphia, PA 19106

    MKSAP 18 - Preview Content

    View the table of contents and sample Text and Questions pages from each section in MKSAP 18.

    Part A Content

    Part B Content