SELECT SISRA - Inpatient Acting Internship in Surgery

All foreign medical students who wish to do a clerkship in Surgery here at LSUHSC-S must be interested in applying to and qualified for our residency training program as well, because we have very limited clerkship positions available. Please see criteria for foreign medical graduates to qualify for residency training here on our website: http://www.lsuhscshreveport.edu; then click on “LSU Residency and Fellowship Programs.” If you meet these specifications, please let us know that you have read the requirements and that you qualify, so we can continue the process of approving a clerkship for you.

Primary Goals of Selective:

The student will:

1.  Obtain a more advanced understanding of surgical disease processes and treatment.

2.  Obtain more advanced experience in assessment and diagnosis of surgical disease processes

3.  Obtain experience in graduated responsibility as an acting intern on an inpatient service.

Specific Objectives:

The student will:

1.  Obtain experience in taking a history and performing a physical examination on the wards and in clinics.

2.  Formulate a differential diagnosis in clinic and on the wards, adding emphasis to assessment and plan.

3.  Obtain experience in the performance of basic surgical skills in the operating room and clinics.

4.  Obtain experience in surgical decision making with attending supervision in and out of the operating room.

5.  Practice interpersonal and communication skills during interactions with patients, families, and health care teams.

Resources for Learning:

Participating faculty:  Surgical faculty

Texts: Lawrence, Essentials of General Surgery

Hands-on Experience: Wards, OR

 Computer Assisted Instruction: CD Rom

Directed Readings: According to cases evaluated

Self-Directed Learning: Case studies

* Attendance required 5 days a week- monitored by on-site Elective Director.

Formative Evaluation

At the beginning of the second week of the elective, the student will be prompted by the secretary, Mrs. Anna Beth Crowson, to pick up a Formative Evaluation Form and expedite completion.  Once completed, it must be returned to Mrs. Crowson for review. If additional feedback is desired or required, Dr. Griffen will accommodate.

Outcome and Evaluation Measures

At the end of the course, the course director will submit an evaluation of the student’s diary and performance. It will include references to knowledge, skill, and professionalism. Professionalism will be measured in terms of punctual attendance, maturity, approach to the patient, and interaction with faculty and other staff. The student’s diary will contain daily entries. Entries should include references to problem solving, decision making, clinical reasoning, and communicating. Although each entry will contain different elements, entries overall must contain the patients seen, the operations seen or scrubbed for, the articles read (relate each article to a clinical encounter that led to the review and list at least two new things learned or observed,) One of the final entries must include a comprehensive review of what has been learned with specific notes relating the learning process to preparation for internship.

All

Pass/Fail