Coordinator: Vijay Mittal, M.D.
Duration: One month
Maximum number of student per four-week period: Two
Candidates: Senior students of approved medical schools
Evaluation: Oral and Written
Description:
This is a course in which the fourth year medical student is treated and expected to function at or near the level of the first year resident. Daily activities will include:
1. Operating room time to assist at various surgical procedures.
2. Clinical bedside teaching rounds.
3. Opportunity to participate in office practice in consulting surgery.
The student will be assigned to one of three surgical staff services under the direction of Dr. Vijay Mittal, Program Director. The student will closely follow patients under close supervision as an integral part of the surgical team. The student will be involved in the initial emergency evaluation of acutely ill surgical and acutely injured patients.
The student will, under supervision, have the opportunity to develop surgical skills as appropriate in the context of patient care, including first assist on basic cases, central line and chest tube placement, and suturing techniques. Attendance and participation is expected at regularly scheduled surgical conferences, Surgical Morbidity and Mortality Conference, local surgical meetings, and student level lectures.
Workweek: 5 days/week, 8+hours/day; 1 weekend per month
References: Schwartz: Principles of Surgery
