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General Surgery Junior Medical Student Elective

Goal: The goal of this elective is to provide the student with the opportunity to observe common conditions that affect the breast, colorectal, abdomen, and endocrine that are treated in a surgical fashion as well as transplant patients.

Objectives: At the conclusion of these weeks, the student will be able to:

1. Perform a comprehensive history and physical exam on patients that present with a general surgery diagnosis.
2. Describe the perioperative management of common general surgical problems.
3. Understand clinical manifestations of acute abdominal pain and principles of emergency management.

Participating Faculty: Gary Dunnington, MD, Sajida Ahad, MD, Marc Garfinkel, MD, David Rea, MD, Hilary Sanfey, MD, Don Ramsey, MD, John Mellinger, MD, Don Ross, MD, Max Hammer, MD, James Fullerton, MD, Keith Wichterman, MD, Orlando Icaza, MD.

Course Description:
During the elective, the student will follow the team at the Hospital that they have been assigned. Students at MMC will be divided into two groups. One group will consist of only one student and will follow Springfield Clinic surgeons. The second group will follow the SIU general surgeons.

Call Requirement: One day each week of in-house call. Every student must take a Friday or Saturday and one weekday call. The hours of call are from 6 am to 10 pm. When you are on call you need to contact the junior resident on call by paging them by 6 am.

Contact Person: For daily assignments contact the most senior resident assigned to each team. 

Vijian Dhevan – pager #5604                                                                      

Abraham Sayon – pager #6641
Long Nguyen – pager #5605                                                       

Jennifer Steiman – pager #5652
Adam Reid – pager #5606                                                            

Vriti Advani – pager #5925
Deborah Date – pager #5651