General Surgery (UH). 4 Credit Hours

Catalog description

Students will participate in the care of patients with common general surgical outpatient diagnoses. Students in a supervised setting will evaluate patients in the outpatient general surgery clinics at UT Health San Antonio and University Health System clinics. Students will participate in a high volume of outpatient surgeries both in the hospital setting and the surgery center settings. Students in a supervised setting will check in patients for their surgeries, participate in the operations, and participate in the safe transition of patients from the operating room to the post-anesthesia care unit. Students will evaluate post-op patients in clinic, going over pathology results, removing sutures or staples, and participating in the post-op continuity of care of patients who have undergone elective surgeries.