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Surgical Clerkship
Surgical Curriculum
All students are expected to master the following medical topics by the end of their clerkship. Students acquire the majority of this knowledge through self-directed reading, building on a framework provided by attending physicians and housestaff via lectures and case studies.
- Acute Abdomen
- Appendix
- Benign Perianal Disease
- Biliary Disease
- Breast Disease
- Colorectal Cancer
- Critical Care in Surgery
- Diverticular Disease
- Esophageal Disease
- Fluid and Electrolytes and Acid-Base Balance
- Gastrointestinal Bleeding
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Intestinal Obstruction
- Liver and Portal Hypertension
- Pancreas
- Postoperative Care
- Obstructive Jaundice
- Skin and Soft Tissue
- Spleen
- Stomach and Duodenum
- Surgical Infection
- Surgical Nutrition
- Thyroid and Parathyroid Disease
- Trauma
- Wound Healing and Wound Care
Operations and Procedures
To See (Operations)
- Amputation
- Appendectomy
- Axillary dissection
- Biopsy of breast and other masses and spot localization
- Central venous access
- triple lumen catheter
- Broviac, Hickman, or Portocath
- Chest tube insertion
- Cholecystectomy
- Colectomy
- Diagnostic peritoneal lavage
- Esophagectomy
- Gastrectomy
- Herniorrhaphy
- inguinal
- ventral/incisional
- Lysis of adhesions for small bowel obstruction
- Mastectomy
- without reconstruction
- with reconstruction
- Nissen fundoplication
- Splenectomy
- Stoma creation
To Do (Procedures)
- Applying an Ace bandage
- Changing a dressing
- wet-to-dry
- open abdominal wound
- Drawing arterial blood
- Drawing blood from a peripheral vein
- Inserting a central line
- Inserting a Foley catheter
- Inserting an NG tube
- Jackson-Pratt drains
- Performing an EKG
- Putting on a Unna boot
- Starting a peripheral IV
- Suturing a skin laceration
- Tying simple knots in patient sutures
- Writing notes
- admission
- daily
- operative
- post-operative
- Writing orders
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