For the American Board of Plastic Surgery Written Examination and the Plastic Surgery In-Service Exam

The plastic surgery question bank that knows what you don't.

Over 300 board-style questions, every one with a referenced explanation. Brain Trace maps what you've mastered and routes each session to what you haven't.

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Brain Trace inside Incise: a knowledge map of 635 board concepts colored by mastery, beside counts of nodes mastered, the current route, and the estimated sessions to full mastery.
300+
Board-style questions, and growing every week.
5 of 5
In-service exam sections, covered in full.
Every one
Explained in full, with references and clinical figures.
5 stages
Of validation before a question is released to you.
Brain Trace · Alpha, live now

It learns what you don't know. Then it teaches you that.

A timed diagnostic exam sets your baseline across all five in-service sections. From there, Brain Trace keeps a living map of plastic surgery concepts and your mastery of each, and routes every session through the ones that need you most.

  • Diagnostic exam maps your baseline
  • Adaptive questions, self-evaluation, flashcards, rapid review
  • Spaced repetition protects what you've already learned
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Brain Trace knowledge graph: concepts such as wound healing, flap physiology, nerve repair and craniomaxillofacial connected by a dashed study route, with overall mastery shown at 74 percent.
Tutor mode

Every answer, explained. Every explanation, referenced.

Wrong answers teach instead of just correcting. Each question opens a full explanation that connects the stem to the clinical reasoning behind it, with references, and a clinical figure when a picture teaches faster than a paragraph.

Tutor mode in Incise: a question on a woman with lifelong bilateral leg swelling, the correct answer of congenital lymphedema marked, and an explanation that opens with a classification diagram of primary and secondary lymphedema by cause and age of onset.
References with every question Clinical figures where they help
Test mode

Practice in the room you'll sit the exam in.

Timed blocks in an interface built to mirror the Plastic Surgery In-Service Exam: the density, the navigation, the clock. Exam day should feel like one more session.

  • Full-length timed simulations
  • Section blocks with breaks, exactly as on the day
  • Review every answer afterward, with references
See exam simulation
Test mode in Incise: a hand and extremities question inside a timed exam interface with a navy header, question navigator, and a countdown clock.
Analytics · Flashcards

Know where you stand. Fix it before the exam does.

Your dashboard tracks accuracy, your percentile against residents in your training year, and your study streak, and plots your score on the curve. Every miss becomes a flashcard, due exactly when you're about to forget it.

The Incise dashboard: overall accuracy, percentile against a chosen resident cohort, questions completed, a daily study-activity heatmap, and your score plotted on the cohort distribution.
AnalyticsAccuracy, percentile against your training year, study streaks, and where you sit on the score curve.
A flashcard generated from a missed question: which nerve is most at risk in an extension-type supracondylar humerus fracture, marked due now.
FlashcardsGenerated from your misses and scheduled by spaced repetition.
Rapid Review notes

Notes written for your weakest topics, not somebody else's.

Ask Brain Trace for a Rapid Review packet and it writes one for the concepts on your route: the cues to test yourself against, the facts behind them, and comparison tables built for cover-and-recall drilling. Every packet lands in Study Notes as a document you can edit, highlight, and print.

  • Built from your own mastery map, weakest topics first
  • Cues, notes, comparison tables, and a high-yield take per topic
  • Editable and printable, and yours to keep
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Study Notes in Incise: a Rapid Review packet opened as an editable document, with a Blepharoplasty section listing self-test cues, the notes that answer them, and a comparison table of findings, diagnoses, and treatments.
How it works

Structured to a resident's schedule.

Ten minutes between cases or an hour post-call. Incise is built for the way residents actually study.

  1. 01 · Diagnose

    Map your baseline

    A timed diagnostic exam in Brain Trace scores your starting point across all five in-service exam sections.

  2. 02 · Practice

    Target your gaps

    Adaptive sessions send questions into your weakest domains. Ten minutes or sixty, your call.

  3. 03 · Review

    Understand, don't memorize

    Every wrong answer opens a referenced explanation that connects the question to clinical reasoning.

  4. 04 · Pass

    Arrive prepared

    Simulate full exams in the final weeks. Walk in knowing the depth of your preparation.

Quality

Every question earns its place.

Every question passes a five-stage validation pipeline before it is released, and revision never stops.

  1. 1 Literature audit

    Checked against PubMed and current clinical guidelines.

  2. 2 Blinded verification

    An independent re-derivation must arrive at the same answer.

  3. 3 Language quality

    Cueing, stem clarity, and distractor balance are analysed.

  4. 4 Scoring

    A composite score across six clinical accuracy dimensions.

  5. 5 Revision

    Flagged questions are revised and re-validated before release.

Checked against PubMed Six clinical accuracy dimensions Revised continuously
Pricing

One membership. Everything included.

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Every membership includes

  • Full access to the question bank: 300+ questions and growing
  • All five in-service exam sections
  • Brain Trace adaptive learning engine (alpha)
  • Referenced explanations for every question
  • Timed exam simulations
  • Performance analytics by section
  • Flashcards generated from your misses
  • Rapid-review notes generated for your route
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