MKSAP 19 - Questions

Prepare efficiently. Derived from MKSAP’s 12 subspecialty syllabus sections, MKSAP's 1,200 self-assessment questions feature one-best answer, clinically relevant, patient-based multiple-choice questions. Plus, MKSAP's questions cover the same topics included in the ABIM exam blueprint to help you prepare smartly.

Test yourself with MKSAP’s unsurpassed question-writing excellence. A tremendous amount of effort goes into developing MKSAP's board-like multiple-choice questions, written by a team of 12 expert subspecialty committees using the highest standards in question writing. Each MKSAP self-assessment question is pretested by physicians like you and psychometrically validated to ensure it is well-structured, accurate, and fair.

Study with a variety of question formats. Depending on the format you purchase, MKSAP 19 offers variety in both number and type of questions, including traditional self-assessment questions, Extension Questions focusing on new information and learning gaps, Virtual Dx (image-based) Questions, flashcards (one-question/one-answer questions, adaptive learning enhanced), and MKSAP Quick Qs to focus your study and prime you for your boards.

MKSAP 19 – Hospitalist Content

Trust MKSAP 19 to keep you up-to-date in hospital medicine and meet your requirements for the ABIM Internal Medicine: Inpatient program.

MKSAP 19 Features for Hospitalists:

• Hundreds of multiple-choice questions specifically devoted to hospitalist topics
• Content covering high-importance Internal Medicine: Inpatient exam blueprint topics
• Topics include 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 others
• Hospitalist practice-focused multiple-choice questions allow creation of hospital practice-focused custom quizzes

MKSAP 19 is a comprehensive learning solution to keep you abreast of important information in the hospital setting and to help you pass the Internal Medicine: Inpatient exam.

MKSAP 19 - 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 MKSAP’s Learning Dashboard
• Automatically receive regular content updates with the New Info Updates feature
• Get more practice answering questions with 200 MKSAP 19 Extension Questions
• Use the MKSAP 19 Apps online or offline, from any device, so you never lose your work

Plus! Try out these new digital features:

• Customized MKSAP 19 Learning Dashboard: Create a customized learning plan based on your learning proficiency. As you progress through MKSAP 19, identify your knowledge gaps and create an individualized plan to guide you through additional reading, questions, flashcards, and links to other ACP resources.
• Earn-As-You-Go CME Credit. Earn CME credit and MOC points gradually by answering a few questions at a time without having to complete all of the questions within a subspecialty section to qualify. 
• MKSAP 19 Quick Qs: Includes 250+ concise, boards-style questions mapped to high-importance/high-frequency areas of the ABIM blueprint, developed specifically for efficient and effective exam prep. This feature is accessible to MKSAP 19 Complete Green subscribers only. Offers CME/MOC. 

MKSAP 19 Residency Tracker

The MKSAP 19 Residency Program Tracker enables residency programs to assess potential knowledge gaps and create appropriate remediation plans as residents work through MKSAP 19’s individualized learning platform.

Features include:

• Customized question assignments based on MKSAP 19 subspecialty topic or area requiring improvement as demonstrated through MKSAP 19 self-assessment question scores
• Ability to measure learning improvement by creating pre-intervention and post-intervention question assignments
• Review residents’ responses to individual questions to identify incorrectly selected distractors and address potentially confusing points
• Review aggregate data to identify areas for potential curricular adjustment

Learn more about MKSAP 19 Tracker

MKSAP 19 - Earn-As-You-Go CME/MOC submission

With MKSAP 19, you can earn a quarter of a point for each question when you answer one of two questions correctly (50% correct). This same formula will apply to MKSAP Quick Qs, Virtual Dx, and Extension Questions. You will still have multiple attempts to answer questions correctly to earn the maximum number of points per section.

Interested in earning CME/MOC as quickly as possible? MKSAP 19 allows you to focus only on questions that have not yet been used in a CME/MOC submissions claim.

*Learners earn .25 points per correctly answered question, up to the maximum number of points/credited listed for each subspecialty section.

MKSAP 19 Enhancements CME/MOC credits/points are listed below.

*Learners earn .25 points per correctly answered question, up to the minimum number of total points/credited listed for the estimated number of questions per activity.

MKSAP Quick Qs

New for MKSAP 19! Accessible to MKSAP 19 Complete Green subscribers only.

Test yourself with concise, board-like questions that are mapped to the high-frequency/high-important areas of the ABIM blueprint. With at least 250 questions, MKSAP Quick Qs are specifically created to help you prepare for the ABIM Certification and MOC exams. With the MKSAP Quick Qs, you can create custom quizzes in Exam and Study mode to facilitate your learning.

Earn a minimum of 62.5 PRA Category 1 CME credits and MOC points.

MKSAP 19 - Board Basics

Count on Board Basics for an intensive ABIM Board review. Board Basics is derived from MKSAP 19 content, but presented in a succinct digest style with key facts, tables, and test-taking tips to help you prepare for your Boards. An integrated digital version of the Board Basics study guide is included for MKSAP 19 Resident/Fellow Members and Complete Green subscribers.

This ABIM board review digest can help you:

• Absorb key takeaways on the diagnosis and treatment of the many disease entities discussed in MKSAP 19 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

The integrated digital version is included with your MKSAP 19 Complete Green subscription. If you are an ACP Resident/Fellow Member, you will receive an integrated digital version with your purchase of MKSAP 19 Complete Green or MKSAP 19 Digital.

MKSAP 19 - Digital Flashcards

With 1,200 "byte-sized" questions, the MKSAP 19 digital flashcards help you review for the Internal Medicine Board exams. Accessible to MKSAP 19 Complete Green subscribers only.

• Each flashcard is linked to an important MKSAP 19 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
• Create a learning plan using the detailed flashcard review answer sheet

MKSAP 19 - Virtual Dx

This new edition of the online, image-based self-assessment program is both fun and challenging. Accessible to MKSAP Complete Green subscribers only.

• Quiz yourself with over 400 high-resolution images in 12 major categories spanning internal medicine and its subspecialties
• Useful for Board prep or to gauge the strength of your visual diagnostic skills
• Zoom in for more detail, choose your best answer, and find out if you’re correct and where you stand among your peers
• Earn up to a maximum of 105 PRA Category 1 CME credits and MOC points

MKSAP 19 - Guarantee

(Note: Pass Guarantee terms apply to the version of MKSAP that was purchased. Customers who received MKSAP 19 as a free bonus to their ACP MKSAP purchase: please refer to the ACP MKSAP Pass Guarantee. The following terms apply to purchases of MKSAP 19 as a standalone product prior to April 9, 2024.)

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 19’s focused syllabus and rigorously developed multiple-choice questions, we will send you a full refund on your purchase of MKSAP 19.*

*To qualify for the refund, you must verify use of MKSAP 19 PRIOR TO TAKING YOUR Certification or Recertification EXAM by meeting the following requirements:

• Completion of 100% of MKSAP 19’s 1,200 self-assessment questions
• Scoring at least 50% for each of MKSAP 19’s 12 completed sections
• Submission of CME credit for all 1,200 completed questions

Please note that if you complete any of MKSAP 19’s 1,200 self-assessment questions 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 along with the MKSAP 19 Pass Guarantee Request Form within 1 year of your examination to:

MKSAP 19 Guarantee
attn.: Kim Kerns
American College of Physicians
190 N. Independence Mall West
Philadelphia, PA 19106

email: kkerns@acponline.org

MKSAP 19 - Preview Content

View the table of contents and sample Text and Questions pages from each section in MKSAP 19.