Colon and Rectal Surgery
TITLE: Colon and Rectal Surgery
SPONSORING UNIT: Colon and Rectal Clinic of Orlando/Orlando Regional Medical Center
COURSE DIRECTOR: Joseph T. Gallagher, M.D.
COURSE PREREQUISITES: General Surgery Clerkship, Fourth Year Medical Student
COURSE GOALS: The student will shadow an attending from the Colon and Rectal Clinic. Typically, will be able to interact on a one-to-one basis with an attending and have exposure to a surgical private practice setting. Students will be expected to attend grand rounds, morbidity and mortality conference, pathology conference and journal club.
FACULTY PARTICIPANTS:
- Paul. R. Williamson, M.D.
- Andrea Ferrara, M.D.
- Samuel DeJesus, M.D.
- Renee Mueller, M.D.
- Mark Soliman, M.D.
- Joshua Karas, M.D.
- Marco Ferrara, M.D.
COURSE MATERIALS: Prepared student syllabus
METHODS OF EVALUATION: Clinical performance evaluation provided as a composite by Colon and Rectal Surgery faculty.
MEETING PLACE AND TIME: Graduate Medical Education, Medical Education Building,
86 W. Underwood Street, 1st Floor Lobby, 8:00a.m. (day one)
LENGTH: 4 weeks
ENROLLMENT LIMITS: One per month
OFFERED: August - November and January - May
CREDIT OFFERED: 100% of 4 weeks = 4 credits
BASIC OR CLINICAL SCIENCE: Clinical
Surgical Critical Care
TITLE: Surgical Critical Care
SPONSORING UNIT: Department of Surgery/Orlando Regional Medical Center
COURSE DIRECTOR: Chadwick P. Smith, MD, FACS
COURSE PREREQUISITES: General Surgery Clerkship, Fourth Year Medical Student
COURSE GOALS: This course provides the student with hands-on experience in the diagnosis and management of critically injured and acutely ill general surgery, burn and trauma patients. Students function as an integral part of the surgical critical care team along with the SCC fellow, junior level surgical resident(s), and an emergency medicine resident. The team is responsible for all aspects of critical care including bedside procedures, ventilatory management and post-surgical management. Students are expected to present patients on daily ward rounds and to take call. Students should note there are little to no surgeries; instead, students are encouraged to focus on correlating and coordinating care of all body systems.
Didactic teaching conferences, held three times per week, will expose the student to the pathophysiology and management of the critically ill patient. Students will be expected to attend grand rounds, morbidity and mortality conference, and journal club.
FACULTY PARTICIPANTS: Michael Cheatham, MD; Indermeet Bhullar, MD; Anthony Gielow, MD; William S. Havron III, MD; Stephen Hersperger, MD; Joseph Ibrahim, MD; Matthew Lube, MD; and Howard Smith, MD
COURSE MATERIALS: Clerkship Curriculum, Academic Schedule, ICU Website, Call Schedule
METHODS OF EVALUATION: Students will be evaluated by members of the team as to their extent of participation, surgical knowledge, acceptance of responsibility, initiative, patient presentation, and technical ability. Students will evaluate the rotation as to content and achievement of goals.
MEETING PLACE AND TIME: Graduate Medical Education, Medical Education Building,
86 W. Underwood Street, 1st Floor Lobby, 8:00a.m. (day one)
LENGTH: 4 weeks
ENROLLMENT LIMITS: Two per month
OFFERED: July through November and January through May
CREDIT OFFERED: 100% of 4 weeks = 4 credits
BASIC OR CLINICAL SCIENCE: Clinical
Trauma Surgery
TITLE: Trauma Surgery
SPONSORING UNIT: Department of Surgery/Orlando Regional Medical Center
COURSE DIRECTOR: Joseph Ibrahim, MD
COURSE PREREQUISITES: General Surgery Clerkship, Fourth Year Medical Student
COURSE GOALS: This course provides the student with hands-on experience in the care of major trauma patients as well as emergency general surgery. Experience is gained by functioning as an integral part of the Acute Care surgical team at a Level I Trauma Center. This team consists of a trauma attending, senior surgical resident, junior surgical or emergency medicine resident (s), PA, NP, and/or medical students. The team is responsible for all aspects of clinical care including trauma work-up, shock resuscitation, operative and post-operative care, and non-surgical management. Emergency Department consults for surgical assessments are also part of this rotation. Students are expected to take call with their team.
Morbidity and Mortality conference is held weekly at 7:00 am. Grand Round lectures with topics from general surgery, trauma, surgical critical care, colorectal surgery, and surgical oncology are held each week at 8:00 am. Basic Science conferences are held every Wednesday morning at 6:30 am. Journal Club is held the 3rd Friday of each month at 8:00 am. Mock Trauma alerts occur each Monday morning and the students will participate with the team.
FACULTY PARTICIPANTS: Michael Cheatham, MD; Indermeet Bhullar, MD; Anthony Gielow, DO; William S. Havron III, MD; Stephen Herperger, MD; Matthew Lube, MD; Chadwick Smith, MD; and Howard Smith, MD
COURSE MATERIALS: Academic Schedule, Call Schedule
Assigned readings from SurgicalCriticalCare.net’s EBM Guidelines:
Severe Traumatic Brain Injury Management; Chest Tube Management; Blunt Splenic Injury; Thromboelastography in Trauma; Cervical Spine Clearance; Multi-modality Rib Fracture Management
METHODS OF EVALUATION: Students will be evaluated by members of the team as to the extent of their participation; surgical knowledge; and acceptance of responsibility, initiative, and technical ability. Students will evaluate the rotation as to content and achievement of goals.
MEETING PLACE AND TIME: Graduate Medical Education, Medical Education Building,
86 W. Underwood Street, 1st Floor Lobby, 8:00a.m. (day one)
LENGTH: 4 weeks
ENROLLMENT LIMITS: Two per month
OFFERED: July through November and January through May
CREDIT OFFERED: 100% of 4 weeks = 4 credits
BASIC OR CLINICAL SCIENCE: Clinical
Urology
TITLE: Urology
SPONSORING UNIT: Department of Urology/Orlando Health
COURSE DIRECTOR: Jason C. Sea, MD, FRSCS
COURSE PREREQUISITES: Fourth Year Medical Student
COURSE MATERIALS: Reading materials will be suggested around clinical scenarios encountered during the elective. The student may use a general urology textbook for additional background reading (Campbell-Walsh, Smith and Tanagho, Gillenwater, etc).
METHODS OF EVALUATION: Students will be evaluated by supervising attending and members of the team as to their extent of participation, surgical knowledge, acceptance of responsibility, communication skills, patient presentation, and technical ability. Students will evaluate the rotation as to content and achievement of goals.
LENGTH: 4 weeks
ENROLLMENT LIMITS: 1-2 students per rotation
OFFERED: Year round
CREDIT OFFERED: 100% of 4 weeks = 4 credits
BASIC OR CLINICAL SCIENCE: Clinical
