Orthopaedic Spring Elective

Catalog description

Participants will be given hands-on learning on how to reduce fractures and dislocations, make splints and casts, and incise, debride, and suture wounds. They will receive biweekly lectures on the following topics: musculoskeletal chief complaints and their workup, a primer to fractures and dislocations, being a team physician, and musculoskeletal imaging. Students may be given the opportunity to observe operative cases. Students will be required to participate in a scheduled Sim Center activity on Sterile Scrubbing Technique and Proper OR Procedure. Students will take a musculoskeletal competency test at the end of their elective in order to solidify their knowledge. This test will be compiled by the residents. No book will be required for purchase—all material tested will be included in information provided to students in electronic form. The students completing the elective will be given a certificate stating their participation in the musculoskeletal elective. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.