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2023-2026 Academic Catalog

SUR 816 - Clinical Clerkship in Surgery

The clinical clerkship in surgery offers educational experiences and clinical encounters with hospitalized and ambulatory patients. Each student is assigned to a member of the teaching staff. The tertiary and/or secondary hospital setting will provide the student with inpatient and outpatient clinical encounters necessary to develop data gathering, technical, case presentation, and clinical problem-solving skills. Each student will complete a history and physical examination, an assessment, and a treatment plan for at least two (2) new patients per week.
Interpersonal skills, professional attitudes, and educational attitudes will be developed and evaluated through direct student observation by the proctor in the hospital and ambulatory settings and in the classroom.