Surgery

Catalog description

The Surgery clerkship is designed to teach students the role of surgical care in the overall management of patients. Specifically, the students are expected to learn the work-up and evaluation of surgical patients, as well as the indications and contraindications for expected results, risks and complications of specific operations. Students are expected to scrub on a number of operations and will follow patients from presentation, work-up, and treatment, including operations and post-treatment/postoperative care. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.