Surgery Clerkship - Patient Care

8 units

During the surgery clerkship, there is ample opportunity for students to spend time in the operating rooms, outpatient clinics, and in the daily care and management of surgically treated inpatients. The students will spend three weeks on each of two General Surgery services and will also attend the teaching conferences and rounds for their assigned services. In addition, each student will take one overnight shift on the Trauma and Acute Care Surgery service, seeing Emergency Room Trauma and General Surgery patients. The services available to students will include: Acute Care and Trauma Surgery, Barnes Jewish West County, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Colorectal, Hepatobiliary, Minimally Invasive Surgery, Neurological Surgery, Orthopedic Surgery, Otolaryngology, Pediatric Surgery, Plastic Surgery, Surgical Oncology (primarily Breast and Endocrine), Transplant, Urologic Surgery, VA Hospital and Vascular Surgery. The combinations of their two services will be such so as to provide the student with the optimal exposure to the required diagnoses and conditions.