Surgery Clerkship
(SU019 and SU0012-C)
This course is designed to provide the student with a balanced, multidisciplinary perspective of the surgical sciences. The objectives are to provide an understanding of the surgical management of disease, to illustrate special problems encountered with surgical patients, to fix clearly in the student’s mind the means available for establishing diagnoses of surgical problems, to expose the student to the expectations and limitations of appropriate surgical therapy, and to give students familiarity in the pre- and post-operative care of patients. Major surgical problems are presented such that a correlation between clinical observations, surgical (operative) pathology, and the physiological alterations brought about by operation can be made. This background is intended to lead the student to appreciate both the philosophy and practice of surgery and their relationships to the medical practice in general.
Students are required to complete the 12 week surgery course which consists of exposure to both inpatient and outpatient surgery. This will be organized into two principal rotations, each of six weeks duration: the inpatient rotation encompassing General Surgery, Vascular, Trauma, Oncology and Pediatric Surgery; and the ambulatory rotation which encompasses Orthopaedics, Otolaryngology, Urology, Ophthalmology, Anesthesia, Plastic Surgery, and Neurosurgery. Each student will be assigned to rotations at some or all of the following locations: UCLA, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, West Los Angeles VA Medical Center, Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, and Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. Objectives of the course in Surgery are the same at all locations, but administrative details and the flavor of the course will differ somewhat in each hospital.
Students may contact the Surgery Education Office at (310) 206-2567 if they have questions.
GRADING/EVALUATION POLICY
All students will take a written and practical final examination. Students are reminded that although they may not be assigned rotations on every surgical specialty service they are expected to have a working knowledge of the major principles of each and may be examined on these. The student grade for the Surgery Clerkship is composed of several elements: the clinical performance (50%), the practical examination (25%), and the final written exam (25%).
In order to pass the clerkship students must attain passing grades in all elements of the course. Failing any element of the course will result in a “Fail” grade for the course.
CRITERIA FOR LETTERS OF DISTINCTION IN SURGERY
- The student must demonstrate outstanding performance on the written examination with a shelf score of at least 80%.
- The student must demonstrate outstanding performance on the practical examination.
- The student must demonstrate outstanding performance on clinical evaluations.
- Nomination(s) or letter(s) of recommendations from individual faculty member(s) will be taken into consideration.
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Coordinator: |
SURGERY ORIENTATION |
CLERKSHIP CONTACTS
Hospital Site |
Site Director(s) |
Student Coordinator |
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center (UCLA) |
Jonathan Hiatt, M.D. |
Iris Mau |
West LA VA Medical Center (WVA) |
Mark Sawicki, M.D. Jessica O'Connell, M.D. |
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Olive View-UCLA Medical Center (OVH) |
Melinda Maggard Gibbons, M.D. Darin Saltzman, M.D. |
Lorena Ponce |
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (HARBOR) |
Byrne Lee, M.D. |
Kristan Holstrom |
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (CS) |
Shirin Towfigh , M.D. |
Sheila Yancy |
Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center (S.MONICA) |
David D. Chen, M.D. (310) 319-4080 |
