SURGICAL SKILLS AND SIMULATED PATIENTS II

Catalog description

This combined course of surgical skills and simulated patients is offered as part of the core clinical rotations in the third year. The surgical skills portion provides students with the knowledge and hands-on training pertaining to the physical skills that are necessary to perform surgery of the foot and ankle. An effort is made to correlate didactic information learned in the classroom with the rationale behind why many surgical procedures are performed. Adequate demonstration of surgical skills are provided along with practice time and constructive performance feedback. Upon successful completion of this course, students should possess a basic understanding of and the ability to perform physical skills which are necessary in foot and ankle surgery. Course covers general medicine, simulated patient interactions and clinical skills exam exposure.