MSIV Resident Readiness Electives Emergency Medicine Internal Medicine OB/GYN Surgery MSIII Surgery Clerkship Suturing & Knot Tying Wound Care 101

Many departments and divisions design their curricula to include Skills Lab modules. PG1 Intern Boot Camp Emergency Medicine Otolaryngology-ENT General Surgery Internal Medicine Plastic Surgery OB / GYN Orthopedics Urology Vascular Surgery

The “Culture of Health” is an increasingly well-accepted concept that states where we live, learn, work and play has more to do with our health than anything else, including our genetic makeup or the availability of health care. For the last two years a small group of local residents, whose names are listed below, has been meeting monthly to explore how we could bring a Culture of Health to the communities and neighborhoods of Sangamon County. We call ourselves the “Community Health Roundtable”. After considerable reflection, the roundtable established a vision: Sangamon County citizens and

Thank you for taking the time to tell us about yourself! Information submitted on this form will be compiled into a class-specific document for your class reunion. The document will be available via PDF and loaded onto a flash drive that will be given to you once you arrive and register. Additionally, we will have paper copies of the booklet available for those who request them through this form.

Janet Ketchum, CSFA Director/Skills Coach 217-545-7878 jketchum@siumed.edu Janet Ketchum has been the Surgical Skills Director/Skills Coach in the Department of Surgery at the SIU School of Medicine since the opening of the SIU Surgical Skills Center in February of 2000. She is a graduate of the Decatur Memorial School of Surgical Technology and has also completed the Surgical First Assistant program through the National Institute of First Assistant program (NIFA). Before developing the SIU Surgical Skills Center, Janet worked in the Springfield Memorial Hospital OR specializing in General

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The SIU Surgical Skills Center has been greatly expanded in its new location at the Memorial Learning Center which was completed in 2015. The Memorial Learning Center is a four-story facility at the corner of Miller and Rutledge streets. The MLC is specifically designed for learning, innovation and professional development with facilities that include a large conference center and classrooms, a state-of-the-art Clinical Simulation Center, and a Surgical Skills Laboratory.

Standardized patients (SPs) have been used for teaching and assessing medical students at SIU School of Medicine since the late 1970's. In the mid-1980's, under the direction of Dr. Howard Barrows, the use of SPs in assessment was expanded to include a 15-patient clinical practice exam (CPX) in the senior year. This examination served as part of the stimulus for the development of the SP Project at the National Board of Medical Examiners and for the Macy consortia Project in the early-mid 1990's. Students at SIU School of Medicine see SPs throughout their undergraduate curriculum. In the first

The residency training program in plastic surgery provides a diverse experience in plastic surgery and its subspeciality areas. Two positions per year are filled in an integrated program approved by the Residency Review Committee which involves matching into the program during the senior year of medical school. Rotations during the first three years are: First year - general surgery, orthopaedics, plastics, ocular plastics, transplant, vascular, and trauma Second year - general surgery, plastics, oral surgery, head & neck, hand/ortho, burn unit and research Third year - plastics, head & neck