Health Sciences 2014–2015 University Calendar

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Surgery

Core Courses

This Department contributes to all curriculum components.

SURG 301 Surgery - Transition to Clinical Practice.

(4) (Restriction(s): Open only to students in the M.D.,C.M. program.) Develop history taking and physical examination skills necessary to collect information and make the diagnosis of the patient. Pathophysiology of surgical conditions. Students will be assigned to a surgical service and tutor, seeing patients in the preoperative and perioperative period and following the patient postoperatively. Work up two patients per week on the ward and in the ambulatory care setting and follow each patient through the entire perioperative period. Learn how to write progress notes and prepare for case presentations. Small group teaching sessions held in the hospitals. Service rounds, ward rounds, and participation in the operative management of their patients.

SURG 402 General Surgery - Clerkships.

(4) (Restriction: Good standing in M.D.,C.M. program.) Principles of general surgery.

In their core clerkship third year, students spend four weeks as clinical clerks in general surgery. The objectives of the surgical clerkship are the workup and management of surgical conditions. As clinical clerks, the students become a part of the surgical team, attending rounds, managing patients and wards, taking calls and becoming involved in the entire management period of their patients. During the four-week rotations, students are given small group teaching on various topics in surgery and orientation sessions at the McGill Simulation Centre.

SURG 403 Surgery Sub-Specialty - Senior Clerkships.

(4) (Prerequisite: SURG 401.) (Restriction: Good standing in M.D.,C.M. Program.) Principles of a surgery sub-specialty.

In their senior fourth year, students spend four weeks as senior clinical clerks in a subspecialty of surgery. The objectives of the surgical clerkship are the workup and management of surgical conditions. Four weeks are spent in Surgery, assigned to one of the following surgical disciplines: Cardiothoracic Surgery, Neurosurgery, Orthopedic, Otolaryngological, General Pediatric Surgery, Plastic Surgery, Transplant, Urology or Vascular Surgery. As senior clinical clerks, the students become a part of the surgical team, attending rounds, managing patients and wards, taking calls and becoming involved in the entire management period of their patients. During the four-week rotations, students are given small group teaching on these surgical subspecialty topics.

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