Surgery Clerkship

The Surgery Clerkship is an 8-week clinical experience in the core clerkship year. In this clerkship, students will learn basic knowledge and skills specific to the field of general surgery, including emergent and non-emergent intra-abdominal disease, traumatic injury, and surgically treated malignancies. Students will have the opportunity to learn about a selection of illnesses treated by surgical subspecialists including diseases of the head and neck, the genitourinary system, the vascular system, thorax, and the musculoskeletal system, as well as anesthesiology.