General Surgery Rotation Credits: 10

Catalog description

Introduces students to the field of general surgery. Emphasizes the indications, contraindications, types of operative management, and the mortality and morbidity of various operations. Involves the student in several different kinds of learning experiences, such as preoperative and postoperative care, work in the operating room, outpatient clinic visits, night call, student conferences and resident conferences. Covers skills in surgical scrub, putting on gown and gloves, knot tying, vena puncture, proctoscopy, and suturing of the skin. Students assist in performing skills such as insertion of CVP catheters, insertion of a chest tube, thoracentesis, paracentesis and Swan-Ganz catheters.