• Welcome
• Clerkship Expectations
  • Patient Assignments
  • Kinds of Workups
  • Call
  • Outpatient Clinic
  • Operating Room
  • Conferences
  • Evaluation Process
  • Grade Review Process
• Overview
  • Goals
  • Infection Control
  • Protected Time
  • Illnesses/Absences
  • Dress Code
  • Priority List
• Core Curriculum Conferences
  • Acute Abdomen & Hernias
  • Anorectal Disease
  • Breast Disease
  • Colorectal Disease
  • ENT I
  • ENT II
  • Gall Bladder
  • Heart Disease
  • Jaundice & GI Bleed
  • Lung Disease
  • Ortho I
  • Ortho II
  • Pediatric Surgery
  • Perioperative Care
  • Plastics I
  • Plastics II
  • Sepsis Mgt. & ICU
  • Trauma
  • Urology I
  • Urology II
  • Vascular I
  • Vascular II
  • Woundcare
• Specialty Descriptions
  • Cardiothoracic
  • Colorectal
  • Emergency Medicine
  • General Surgery
  • Neurosurgery
  • Orthopaedics
  • Otolaryngology
  • Pediatrics
  • Plastic Surgery
  • Trauma
  • Urology
  • Vascular
• Current Clerkship
  • Call Schedule
  • Specialty Schedule
  • Orientation Schedule
• Administration
• Links
• Department Home

Goals

The major goal of the surgery clerkship is to assure that all students acquire the skills and knowledge that all physicians need to know in order to manage patients with a number of conditions commonly treated by surgeons.