The Surgery Clerkship is designed to educate students on the fundamentals of surgical knowledge and patient care. The Clerkship is divided into two four-week rotations. Students are assigned to one service geared toward General Surgery for four weeks and one geared toward Subspecialty Surgery service for four weeks, spending much of the Clerkship in clinical settings across the state. Weekly didactic sessions and online content cover essential general and subspecialty surgery topics with a focus on preparing students for practice in primary care medicine.
Students will participate in all aspects of care of surgical patients encountered on the clerkship. This includes pre-, intra-, and postoperative care across a variety of settings such as outpatient clinic, hospital wards, the operating room and in some cases, the intensive care unit.