Clinical Experience I

Catalog description

Beginning-level scrubbing and instrumentation skills while caring for a surgical patient. The course begins with several weeks of "mock surgery" in the surgical lab on campus and then transitions to the operating room at assigned affiliated hospital or surgery center. Skills performed correlate with skills learned in surgery lab. Includes scrubbing, gowning and gloving, back table and mayo set-ups, surgical draping, instrumentation skills, basic procedural knowledge and employability skills. Students perform primarily in the second scrub role, gradually increasing to the first scrub role. Note: Listed lecture hour reflects contact time for required seminar.