Clinical: Surgery

Catalog description

This clerkship involves active participation in general surgery to include pre-operative, operative, and post-operative patient care. It is a hands-on experience that emphasizes surgical skills, patient history, physical exam, assessment, and plan within a framework of disease processes, and therapeutics in surgery. It includes determination of which labs, imaging, and diagnostics to order, interpreting those results and understanding their impact on the differential diagnosis. The focus is on effective and meaningful patient interaction, and functioning as an essential part of the surgical team. It further explores medical documentation, oral patient presentation, and all aspects of patient management and treatment.