This selective prepares students who plan on careers in the surgical specialties to have a broad understanding of patient care and disease process management in general surgery. Students are under the direct supervision of consulting surgeons in both the outpatient clinic and the hospitals.
The Division of General Surgery provides modern and comprehensive surgical care for both routine and critically ill patients. Students can observe surgical procedures in the following subservices: general, colon & rectal, hepatobiliary, breast, melanoma, and endocrine.
Students will participate in all facets of operative patient care. General Surgery services include Endocrine, Breast, MIS (includes Bariatric), and HPB. Also available is Vascular, Cardiovascular, Thoracic, Pediatric, Abdominal Transplant, and Colon and Rectal Surgery.
Students spend time in the clinic, hospital, and operating room with each of the general surgical consultants. Students thoroughly work up and closely follow 2-3 new surgical patients each week from their preoperative evaluation to their postoperative care, including assistance in the operating room.
Students could see patients across the health care continuum. With a carefully crafted schedule to afford you with the unique opportunity to care for older adults in multiple care settings.
Global health is a discipline focused on promoting equity of physical, mental, and social well-being regardless of national borders. This selective will emphasize interactive learning and discussion with guest speakers and student-led discussions of relevant global health literature.
Medical students with career interests in global and public health would benefit from a formal opportunity to engage with epidemiologic concepts and their implications in clinical medicine through analysis of global and public health-focused scientific literature.
The Global Health Equity Scholars Program is a comprehensive program that is designed to help learners develop a foundation of the breadth of global healthcare and the importance of achieving global health equity, with an emphasis on diverse and medically underserved resource-poor communities.
This selective is intended to provide medical students with an understanding of the realities, opportunities, challenges, and skills associated with practicing surgery in a global setting, with an emphasis on resource-poor environments and sustainable partnership.