Course description

The year 3 Surgery rotation is conducted in the University of Queensland's teaching hospitals in Queensland, Brunei and New Orleans. The eight week rotation is devoted to General Surgery (Breast / Endocrine, Upper Gastrointestinal, Hepatopancreatobiliary, Colorectal, Trauma & Acute surgery) and some subspecialties including Burns & Plastics, Urology, Vascular, Neurosurgery and Cardiothoracic Surgery. The aim of the Year 3 Surgery rotation is to familiarise students with common, serious and life threatening surgical diseases and for the student to develop an understanding of how they present clinically; how to systematically evaluate these conditions; how they are investigated; principles of management; how to assess priorities for treatment; and when and how to initiate referral. The term is not intended to train students as technical surgeons but to develop students that are 'intern ready' who can function as part of a surgical team. Students will be allocated to surgical units, to participate in the daily activities of those units, and to participate in all that happens during their patients' episode of care. In addition, students should attend outpatients, ward rounds, operating theatre, and other unit meetings. Learning resources are provided in the form of a series of Core Lectures (available on the Surgery Blackboard site). In the individual teaching hospitals a tutorial program is conducted. Students are provided lists of recommended operations and investigations to observe and a list of Surgical skills for which they should develop competence and understanding. For assessment, each student will complete a case study (Problem Orientated Medical Record) and a Clinical Case Presentation, which are designed to focus and develop students? clinical reasoning skills. There is an end of rotation exam comprising a MCQ paper and a Short Answer Question paper. Clinical Participation Assessment forms are submitted for any clinical attachment.

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