Northwest Campus

General Surgery, Vascular, and Thoracic Surgery

Mercy Hospital - Williston

SURG 9412

Participating Faculty: Don C. Pearl, M.D.

Offered: All periods
Positions: One per period

Objectives of the Elective:

1. The student will expeditiously prepare a concise relevant history and physical examination with appropriate working diagnosis of surgical illness and planning for management.
2. The student will recognize gross pathology and correlate between the pathologic findings and clinical diagnosis.
3. The student will demonstrate aseptic technique.
4. The student will write pre- and postoperative orders and follow the day-to-day evaluation of surgical patients.
5. The student will manage ambulatory and postoperative patients and follow up these patients.

Instructional Activities:

1. The student will meet daily with the surgeon and will discuss the work-up and mode of therapy on that particular patient.
2. The student will scrub on at least one operative procedure daily and anatomic landmarks of specific pathology will be demonstrated.
3. The student will prepare, under the supervision of the surgeon in charge, pre- and postoperative orders.
4. The student will be expected to make rounds with the surgeon at least twice a day.
5. The student will discuss with the surgeon the patient's progress, care and complications.

Standards of Performance (Outcomes) Indicating Attainment of Objectives:

1. At least one patient daily will be assigned for a work-up. The relevance of the history accuracy of the exam and the appropriateness of the diagnosis will be graded by he preceptor.
2. The efficiency and accuracy with which the student prepares orders (under supervision) and his knowledge of the status and care of assigned postoperative patients will be graded by the preceptor.

Criteria for Grading:

A written evaluation of the student performance in achieving the objectives will be submitted by the preceptor to the assistant dean for the northwest campus.