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Surgery Clerkship
Surgery Clerkship
The surgery clerkship provides significant exposure to common surgical problems, and allows you to evaluate the specialty as a potential career choice. Although the bulk of your education will take place on the general surgery service, most rotations provide the opportunity to explore several surgical subspecialties. A surgical clerkship education is very valuable whether or not you choose to participate in a surgical field. Primary care physicians must be familiar witht he evaluation and management of patients in the pre-operative and post-operative settings. An understanding of core surgical principles is important across many fields, including ones such as anesthesiology, dermatology, and emergency medicine. From a personal standpoint, you or a family member is likely to undergo surgery in your lifetime, and you'll find that an understanding of the preoperative, operative, and post-operative stages will be valuable.
Regardless of your chosen career, your surgery clerkship grade will be a factor used in the residency selection process, due to an emphasis on core clerkship grades in the residency selection process. In a survey of residency program directors across 21 medical specialties, grades in required clerkships were ranked as the # 1 factor used in the selection process (Green).
It's not easy to honor the clerkship. In a survey of medical schools across the country, Takayama found that only 27% of students achieve the highest grade in the surgery clerkship.
Many students approach the surgery clerkship with considerable anxiety. In one study, students were most concerned about fatigue, long hours, workload, insufficient sleep, lack of time to study, mental abuse (getting yelled at or relentless pimping), and poor performance. Unfamiliarity with the operating room environment was also concerning.
In the Surgery Clerkship chapter of our book,Success on the Wards: 250 Rules for Clerkship Success, we provide tips for operating room success, a checklist for thorough pre-rounding, a step-by-step guide to presenting patients, and time-saving templates for the pre-op, post-op, and op notes. This information will maximize your education as well as your performance.
In 2010, approximately 2,500 allopathic and osteopathic medical students matched into general surgery or a related surgic al specialty, such as orthopedic surgery, otolaryngology, plastic surgery, or urology. This chapter includes recommendations for those students interested in pursuing general surgery as a career. When should you do a sub-internship? Should you do an away elective? What are considered negatives in a residency application? These questions, and others, are answered.
The surgery clerkship provides significant exposure to common surgical problems, and allows you to evaluate the specialty as a potential career choice. Although the bulk of your education will take place on the general surgery service, most rotations provide the opportunity to explore several surgical subspecialties. A surgical clerkship education is very valuable whether or not you choose to participate in a surgical field. Primary care physicians must be familiar witht he evaluation and management of patients in the pre-operative and post-operative settings. An understanding of core surgical principles is important across many fields, including ones such as anesthesiology, dermatology, and emergency medicine. From a personal standpoint, you or a family member is likely to undergo surgery in your lifetime, and you'll find that an understanding of the preoperative, operative, and post-operative stages will be valuable.
Regardless of your chosen career, your surgery clerkship grade will be a factor used in the residency selection process, due to an emphasis on core clerkship grades in the residency selection process. In a survey of residency program directors across 21 medical specialties, grades in required clerkships were ranked as the # 1 factor used in the selection process (Green).
| Did you know... The University of Colorado Department of Surgery writes that "most surgery programs look very favorably on an 'Honors' grade in your MS3 surgey clerkship rotation and may factor in the grades you received in your Medicine and Ob/Gyn rotations." |
| Did you know... The University of Washington Department of Radiology writes that "in the interview selection process, the most important aspects of the application are grades in the clinical clerkships, especially the core clerkships in medicine and surgery." |
It's not easy to honor the clerkship. In a survey of medical schools across the country, Takayama found that only 27% of students achieve the highest grade in the surgery clerkship.
Many students approach the surgery clerkship with considerable anxiety. In one study, students were most concerned about fatigue, long hours, workload, insufficient sleep, lack of time to study, mental abuse (getting yelled at or relentless pimping), and poor performance. Unfamiliarity with the operating room environment was also concerning.
In the Surgery Clerkship chapter of our book,Success on the Wards: 250 Rules for Clerkship Success, we provide tips for operating room success, a checklist for thorough pre-rounding, a step-by-step guide to presenting patients, and time-saving templates for the pre-op, post-op, and op notes. This information will maximize your education as well as your performance.
In 2010, approximately 2,500 allopathic and osteopathic medical students matched into general surgery or a related surgic al specialty, such as orthopedic surgery, otolaryngology, plastic surgery, or urology. This chapter includes recommendations for those students interested in pursuing general surgery as a career. When should you do a sub-internship? Should you do an away elective? What are considered negatives in a residency application? These questions, and others, are answered.
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Outpatient Setting |
Giving Talks |
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Lab Test Interpretation |
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