Surgery
By the end of the clerkship, the student will have:
- Acquired the knowledge, skill, and attitudes necessary to care for
the surgical patient.
- Students will learn preoperative care of surgical patients,
- What diseases may be best treated surgically, their presentation
and basic pathophysiology
- Patient selection, informed consent
- Students will experience an learn the ethical treatment of patients
- A basic understanding of preoperative evaluation and assessment of
surgical risk.
- Students will be exposed to operative practice of surgery.
- Students will experience small and major operative procedures
- Students will learn basic suture techniques and basic sterile techniques
- Students will learn postoperative management of patients
- Students will learn fluid management postoperative
- Students will learn about the hormone and catecholamine response
to stress and trauma
- Students will learn to identify important postoperative complications
- Students will learn about the evaluation of trauma patients and resuscitation
of trauma blunt and penetrating trauma patients
- Students will learn about invasive monitoring techniques (pa catheters
and cvp catheters)
- Students will learn about the management and evaluation of patients
with GI bleeds
- Students will learn about the management of wounds
These goals are accomplished through didactic lectures, small group sessions,
seminars and ward participation. Emphasis is placed on the clinical, rather
than the technical aspect of Surgery.
